Miriam Wei Wei Lo

Miriam Wei Wei Lo is a mixed-place-and-race writer who was born in Canada, grew up in Singapore, and has lived in Australia since she was nineteen. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Queensland, but took a long detour from academia to raise her children and do the work of a country pastor’s wife in Margaret River, Western Australia. She currently lives in Walyalup (Fremantle) and teaches creative writing at Sheridan Institute. Her first collection, Against Certain Capture, won the Western Australian Premier’s Prize for Poetry. She is working towards her next collection.