ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Svetlana Sterlin is the author of Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award winning poetry collection, If Movement Was a Language (Vagabond Press), which was Commended in the 2024 Anne Elder Award. A swimming coach and former swimmer, she lives in Meanjin (Brisbane, Australia), where she writes prose, poetry, and screenplays. Her work appears in Westerly, Island, Cordite, Australian Poetry, and has been recognised in the Queensland Literary Awards, Richell Prize, State Library of Queensland Young Writers Award, and others. She is also the founding editor of swim meet lit mag.​​