Monikka Eliah is an Assyrian-Australian writer from Fairfield. She is a member of Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement, the National Theatre of Parramatta’s Page to Stage program and CuriousWorks' Breakthrough program. Her work has been published in The Big Black Thing, SBS Voices, Sweatshop Women, Southerly and The Lifted Brow. She is currently developing her debut novel as a recipeint of an Australia Council Resilience grant.