Amra Pajalic / Mae Archer

Amra Pajalić is an award-winning author, an editor and teacher who draws on her Bosnian cultural heritage to write own voices stories for young people, who like her, are searching to mediate their identity and take pride in their diverse culture. Her short story collection The Cuckoo’s Song (Pishukin Press, 2022) features previously published and prize-winning stories. Her debut novel The Good Daughter, was published by Text Publishing in 2009 and won the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Civic Choice Award and is re-released as Sabiha’s Dilemma (Pishukin Press, 2022).

Her memoir Things Nobody Knows But Me (Transit Lounge, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 National Biography Award. She is co-editor of the anthology Growing up Muslim in Australia (Allen and Unwin, 2014) which was shortlisted for the 2015 Children’s Book Council of the year awards. She works as a high school teacher and is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at La Trobe University.
Amra Pajalić publishes her dark fiction using pen name A. P.  Pajalic. She also publishes romance novels under pen name Mae Archer. 

Website: http://www.amrapajalic.com/
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Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3310015.Amra_Pajalic
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Fikret Pajalic

Fikret Pajalic came to Melbourne as a refugee, learnt English in his mid-twenties and started writing years later. He has won and placed in competitions, published in anthologies and literary magazines. His fiction has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Westerly, Etchings, Sleepers, Antipodes, The Big Issue, Hotel Amerika, Wisconsin Review, The Minnesota Review, Fjords Review, Sheepshead Review, Bop Dead City, Structo, Paper and Ink,  JAAM and elsewhere. In 2014 he was awarded a Creative Victoria grant, and in 2015 an Australia Council grant for the development of his literary manuscript  ‘Wanderings’ and 2016 from Brimbank City Council for the development of chapbook. He is married to author Amra Pajalic and they live in Melbourne's western suburbs with their daughter.

Website: https://www.fikretpajalic.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fikretpajalic17/
Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7440175.Fikret_Pajalic