Meera Atkinson has published widely- her writing has appeared in scores of publications, including Salon.com, Meanjin and Southerly, and she contributes to the quarterly journal Griffith Review. Meera is a PhD graduate from the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University, and was the recipient of the Varuna Dr Dark Flagship Fellowship for 2017, awarded for a non-fiction application of outstanding quality in social, historical or political writing. She won the Griffith Review Contributors' Circle competition 2016 and Emerging Writers' Prize in 2011, and was shortlisted for The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2007. Her most recent book, The Poetics of Intergenerational Trauma, was published in 2017 by Bloomsbury Academic. She lives in Sydney, Australia, and teaches at several universities.