Dr Roanna Gonsalves is the award-winning author of The Permanent Resident (UWAP). She is a recipient of a UNSW Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Award, and an invited Keynote Speaker and panellist at numerous local and international literary events. Roanna’s series of radio documentaries, On the tip of a billion tongues, and her radio essay Doosra: The life and times of an Indian student in Australia were commissioned and broadcast by ABC RN. She works as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at UNSW, Sydney.