Author
Sara M Saleh is an award-winning writer/poet, human rights lawyer, and
the daughter of migrants from Palestine, Egypt, and Lebanon. Her poems,
short stories, and essays have been widely published nationally in
English and Arabic. She is co-editor of the groundbreaking 2019
anthology Arab, Australian, Other.
Sara made history as the first poet to win both the Australian Book Review's 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize and the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize 2020.
Sara lives on Bidjigal land with her partner and their cats, Cappy & Lola. Songs for the Dead and the Living is her first novel.
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