Sara M. Saleh is a writer and human rights lawyer, who is the daughter of Palestinian, Lebanese and Egyptian migrants. She is the first poet to win both the Peter Porter Poetry Prize (2021) and the Judith Wright Poetry Prize (2020). Sara is co-editor of the ground-breaking anthology Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity (Pan Macmillan, 2019). Her first novel, Songs for the Dead and the Living (Affirm Press, 2023) won the 2024 Barbara Jefferis Award and was shortlisted for the 2024 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Her first poetry collection, The Flirtation of Girls (UQP, 2023) won the 2023 Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the 2024 ALS Gold Medal.