Monikka Eliah is an Assyrian-Australian writer and performer from Fairfield. She has participated in National Theatre of Parramatta’s Page to Stage program, Playwrights of Parramatta, CuriousWorks Breakthrough Screen Writing Program and STC’s Rough Draft. Her work has been published in The Big Black Thing, SBS Voices, Sweatshop Women, Racism: Stories on Fear, Hate & Bigotry, Runway Journal, Southerly, Kill Your Darlings, The Lifted Brow and Meanjin. She received the Southlands Breakthrough Award 2018, the Wheeler Centre Playwright Hot Desk Fellowship 2020, an Ausco Resilience Grant 2021 and the Wheeler Center Next Chapter Award 2022.

Publications:

Racism: Stories on Fear, Hate & Bigotry 

Sweatshop Women: Volume One 

The Big Black Thing: Chapter. 2

The Big Black Thing: Chapter. 1