When Wallace McKenzie hears her father has passed-her world tilts. Drawn to the wild beauty of semi-tropical Russell Island and the possibility of uncovering her roots, Wallace finds herself in a landscape shaped by wind, water, and secrets.
Samantha Trayhurn lives and writes on Biripi Country, on the mid-north coast of NSW. When she isn't writing, you'll find her surfing or roller skating. She holds a Doctorate in Creative Writing from Western Sydney University, where she was supervised by Gail Jones, Anthony Uhlmann, and Ben Etherington. This novel forms the creative component of her thesis, and her work explores the liminal spaces where nature, bodies, and ideas intersect.Her writing has appeared in Overland, Westerly, eTropic, Hecate, Scum Mag, and elsewhere. She also contributed a chapter to Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One (Sydney University Press, 2020). The manuscript of this novel placed third in the 2023 Hawkeye Publishing Unpublished Manuscript Prize. She is currently at work on her second novel.
