Michalia Arathimos
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 will be the New Zealand Writer in Residence at Randell Cottage this year, where she is working on her novel, Cartographia. She is also a Grimshaw Sargeson Fellow for 2020.