About the Author

Mikaela Nyman was born on the autonomous Aland islands in Finland and spent four years in Vanuatu. She writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry in Swedish and English. Her PhD in creative writing entailed collaboration with Ni-Vanuatu writers; one of her collaborative poems was published in Sport 47. Her work has featured in Turbine | Kapohau, Sport, Blackmail Press, Sweet Mammalian, Minarets and Strong Words 2019: The Best of the Landfall Essay Competition. In 2019 her first poetry collection, Nar vandkrets laggs mot vandkrets (Ellips), was published in Finland. She currently lives in New Plymouth.