Amaryllis Gacioppo is a journalist and author with a Joint PhD in Creative Writing from Monash University and the University of Bologna. In 2015 her story 'Dreams' won the Lord Mayor of Melbourne Award for Short Story. Her writing has been shortlisted for a number of awards, including the Bristol Short Story Prize and the Scribe Nonfiction Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in Award Winning Australian Writing, Catapult, 3:AM, and elsewhere. This is her first book.
The idea of home- whether real or imagined- animates this blend of memoir and history ... and the result is unusual, intimate, and often moving -- Matt Elton * BBC History Magazine *