Acknowledgement

We respectfully acknowledge that Byron Writers Festival takes place on the traditional lands of the Arakwal Bumberbin Peoples of the Bundjalung Nation. We pay respects to Elders past and present, and acknowledge them as the original storytellers of the lands and waterways of this Country.

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Jumaana Abdu

Jumaana Abdu is the author of Translations (Vintage) which was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the MUD Literary Prize. Her internationally published fiction and essays have won the Dal Stivens Award, the Patricia Hackett Prize and the Phoebe Journal prize for fiction. During the day, she is a medical doctor.