Zohra Aly lives in Sydney on Dharug land. She worked as a hospital pharmacist for several years before becoming a freelance writer. Her features have been published in Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday Life, MiNDFOOD and Helix. Zohra has an MA in Creative Writing from UTS. Her essays have appeared in Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin and Island. Her short […]

Kavita Bedford is an Australian-Indian writer with a background in journalism, anthropology and literature. Her novel, Friends & Dark Shapes, was published in 2021 in Australia, USA, and Italy and was Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards, 2021, The NSW Premiers’ New Fiction, and Small Press Network’s Book of the Year. Her writing has appeared […]

Uthpala Gunethilake is an emerging writer who grew up in a seaside town south of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and has lived in Sydney since 2001. She has been a journalist, publicist, book editor, digital copywriter and now works in the public service. Her most recent published work is an essay celebrating suburban gum trees, included […]

Sujatha Fernandes is a fiction writer, essayist, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney. She is the author of six books and her recent essays on the natural world and climate change have appeared in Orion Magazine and Aster(ix). She is currently completing a novel, Beyond the Monsoon Mountains. Her new project is […]