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Mykaela Saunders Mykaela Saunders i(12974692 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal Dharug ; Aboriginal ; Lebanese
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BiographyHistory

'Mykaela Saunders is a Koori and Lebanese writer with Dharug ancestry, who belongs to the Minjungbal-Nganduwal community in Tweed Heads. She’s currently undertaking a Doctor of Arts degree in the creative writing program at the University of Sydney, where she also lectures in Indigenous Studies. Her doctoral project is called Goori-Futurism: Envisioning the sovereignty of Minjungbal-Nganduwal country, community, and culture through speculative fiction.'

Source: Growing Up Indigenous.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

Choice Cuts i "my blood is worth bottling, so I’m told as though", 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , November 2021;
2020 winner Queensland Poetry Festival Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize
Terranora 2020 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Collisions : Fictions of the Future : An Anthology of Australian Writers of Colour 2020; (p. 88-100)
2019 shortlisted Liminal Fiction Prize
y separately published work icon River Story Southbank : Australian Book Review, Inc. , 2020 19767068 2020 single work short story
2020 winner ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
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