Vanessa Berry is a writer of literary nonfiction with a focus on place-writing and memoir. She is the author of Mirror Sydney, an essay collection on the urban environment, which won the 2018 Mascara Avant-Garde Literary Award, the memoirs Ninety9 and Strawberry Hills Forever, and the autobiographical zine series I am a Camera. Her collection of essays, Gentle and Fierce, will be published by Giramondo in 2021.