Mykaela Saunders

Mykaela Saunders is a Koori and Lebanese writer, teacher, community researcher, and the editor of THIS ALL COME BACK NOW, the world’s first anthology of blackfella speculative fiction, forthcoming with UQP in 2022. Mykaela has won the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, the National Indigenous Story Award, the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize, the Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Prize and the University of Sydney's Sister Alison Bush Graduate Medal. Of Dharug descent, and working-class and queer, Mykaela belongs to the Tweed Goori community.

Articles by Mykaela Saunders:

Published in Overland Issue Queensland Poetry Awards 2020 · Poetry

Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize 2020 Winner | Choice cuts

Mykaela Saunders

cos all these sly salespeople size me up like this is a meat market fetishised flesh up for auction, or slaughter sleazy leers that weigh me and measure me

Published in Overland Issue 234 Autumn 2019 ·

Buried time

Mykaela Saunders

Long long time ago, before the apocalypse, there lived an old woman. She kept the seasons in her body, the land rose and slept when she blinked. She held the tides in her breath, and the earth spun around the sun in rhythm with her heartbeat. She sang all the stories that were held in her body, and the songs became wind and rain and heat and language.