Mykaela Saunders

Mykaela Saunders is the author of Always Will Be (2024), which won the David Unaipon Award, and the editor of This All Come Back Now (2022), the Aurealis Award-winning, world-first anthology of blackfella speculative fiction. Mykaela has won other prizes for fiction, poetry, life writing and research, including the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize and the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize. She is a postdoctoral research fellow at Macquarie University. Of Dharug and Lebanese descent, Mykaela belongs to the Tweed Goori community.