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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Micaela Sahhar

Micaela Sahhar is an Australian-Palestinian writer and educator living on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Her essays, poetry and commentary have appeared in Cordite, Meanjin, Overland, Southerly and Sydney Review of Books, among others. Her first book, Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: an encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family (NewSouth, 2025) won the 2026 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction and was long-listed for the Stella Prize.