DR MYKAELA SAUNDERS is the author of the short story collection ALWAYS WILL BE (UQP 2024), which won the David Unaipon Award, and the editor of THIS ALL COME BACK NOW, the Aurealis Award–winning, world first anthology of blackfella speculative fiction (UQP 2022). Mykaela has won other prizes for fiction, poetry, essays and research, including the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize and the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize. Of Dharug descent, Mykaela belongs to the Tweed Goori community, and is a postdoctoral fellow at Macquarie University researching First Nations speculative fiction.