Michalia Arathimos has just returned from Australia, where she lived in Melbourne and other places. She has published work in The Lifted Brow, Westerly, Overland, Landfall, Headland, JAAM, Sport, Turbine, and elsewhere. She won the Sunday Star Times Short Story Prize in 2016.

Her first novel, Aukati, was published by Mākaro Press. She is the New Zealand Writer in Residence at Randell Cottage this year, and will hold the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship in 2021. She is the fiction reviewer for Melbourne’s Overland Magazine. She is working on a novel called Cartographia.

Twitter: @DrMichalia
Facebook: Michalia Arathimos Writer

Verb Festival 2020 appearances:
6pm, Nov 6: Verb Showcase: The Best Letter I Never Received
8.30pm, Nov 7: Writing from the Diaspora (LitCrawl)