Micaela Sahhar

Micaela Sahhar

Micaela Sahhar is an Australian-Palestinian writer and educator living on Wurundjeri Country. Her essays, poetry and commentary have appeared in Cordite, MeanjinOverland, Rabbit and Sydney Review of Books, among others. She is a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellow (2021), a grant recipient from the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund (2022) which enabled travel to Jerusalem in 2023 to complete her book project, and was commended for the Peter Blazey Fellowship (2024). Her first book, Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: an encyclopedia of a Palestinian family (NewSouth) will be released in May 2025.