Dominic Amerena is an Australian writer whose work has been widely published and anthologised in TheSydney Review of Books, The Saturday Paper, Best Australian Stories, Overland, ABR, The Age, The Australian, The Guardian and The Lifted Brow. Dom has won numerous prizes, scholarships, fellowships, and grants, including the Hawthornden Fellowship, the inaugural Speculate Prize, an Australia Council New Work Grant and the Alan Marshall Short Story Award. Last year Dom completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of RMIT. He lives between Melbourne and Athens, Greece.