Melanie Saward is a Bigambul and Wakka Wakka woman. She is a writer, editor, and university lecturer based in Tulmur (Ipswich), Queensland. She is the managing editor of Djed Press, and her writing has been published in Flock, Overland, Kill Your Darlings, New Australian Fiction 2019, and she’s currently collaborating with former Bachelorette Brooke Blurton on two middle-grade rom-coms due for release by HarperCollins Books Australia in 2023.