Micaela Sahhar

An Australian-Palestinian academic, writer and educator living on unceded Wurundjeri Country in Naarm/Melbourne. Her essays, poetry, and commentary have appeared in Cordite, Meanjin, Overland, Rabbit, Southerly, and Sydney Review of Books, among others. She is a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellow (2021), a grant recipient from the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund (2022), and was commended for the Peter Blazey Fellowship (2024). Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: an encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family (NewSouth, 2025) is her first book.

Photo Credit: Tim Herbert