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Amra Pajalic is a Melbourne-based author of Bosnian background. Her
memoir Things Nobody Knows but Me will be published by
Transit Lounge in May 2019. Memoir extracts have been published in
Meet Me at the Intersection (Fremantle Press, 2018) and
Rebellious Daughters (Venture Press, 2016). Her debut novel,
The Good Daughter (Text Publishing, 2009), won the 2009
Melbourne Prize for Literature's Civic Choice Award, and she is
also the author of a novel for children, Amir: Friend on
Loan (Garratt Publishing, 2014). She works as a high school
teacher and is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at La Trobe
University. Her website is www.amrapajalic.com.
Demet Divaroren was born in Adana, Turkey, and migrated to
Australia with her family when she was six months old. She is the
author of Living on Hope Street, which won a 2018 Victorian
Premier's Literary Award and was shortlisted for a 2018 Prime
Minister's Literary Award. Her writing has appeared in Griffith
Review, The Age Epicure, The Big Issue, Island
Magazine, From the Outer and Best Summer Stories.
Demet appears as a panellist, guest speaker and workshop leader at
literary festivals, universities and schools across Melbourne and
teaches creative writing at Victoria Polytechnic. Her website is
www.demetdivaroren.com.
Amra and Demet are co-authors of the book What a Muslim Woman
Looks Like, a government-funded publication.
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