
Mykaela Saunders

Mykaela Saunders is a Koori/Goori and Lebanese writer and the editor of THIS ALL COME BACK NOW (UQP 2022), the world’s first anthology of blackfella speculative fiction, which won an Aurealis Award. Mykaela’s debut spec-fic collection ALWAYS WILL BE (UQP 2024) won the David Unaipon Award, was shortlisted for the NSW Literary Award Indigenous Writers Prize, and longlisted for The Stella Prize. Mykaela has won other prizes for fiction, poetry, essays and research, including the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize, and the ASAL Rosemary van den Berg Prize for First Nations Criticism. Mykaela is a postdoctoral research fellow at Macquarie University researching First Nations speculative fiction.