Zane Goebel is a lecturer in Indonesian and Linguistics at La Trobe University in Australia. He has also taught these disciplines at the Northern Territory University and James Cook University. In 2001 he received his Ph.D. in sociolinguistics based on close to three years of fieldwork in Indonesia. His wife Junaeni Goebel is a native speaker of Indonesian. Zane and Junaeni are also the authors of the Pocket Indonesian Dictionary and the Essential Indonesian Phrase Book, both of which are published by Periplus Editions.