This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction - Paperback

by Mykaela Saunders (Editor)

The first-ever anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction - written, curated, edited and designed by blackfellas, for blackfellas and about blackfellas. In these stories, ' this all come back' all those things that have been taken from us, that we collectively mourn the loss of, or attempt to recover and revive, as well as those that we thought we' d gotten rid of, that are always returning to haunt and hound us. Some writers summon ancestral spirits from the past, while others look straight down the barrel of potential futures, which always end up curving back around to hold us from behind. Dazzling, imaginative and unsettling, This All Come Back Now centres and celebrates communities and culture. It's a love letter to kin and country, to memory and future-thinking.

Author Biography

Dr Mykaela Saunders is a Koori/Goori and Lebanese writer, teacher and researcher, and the editor of This All Come Back Now, the Aurealis Award- winning, world-first anthology of blackfella speculative fiction (UQP, 2022). Always Will Be won the 2022 David Unaipon Award. Mykaela's writing has won numerous prizes including the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize, and the National Indigenous Story Award. They are currently an Indigenous postdoctoral fellow at Macquarie University, researching First Nations speculative fiction.