Jane Downing’s stories and poems have been published around Australia and overseas, including in Griffith Review, Big Issue, Antipodes, Southerly, Westerly, Island, Overland, Meanjin, Canberra Times, Cordite, Best Australian Poems and previously in Other Terrain. In 2016 she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and in 2023 she won the AAALS (American Association of Australasian Literary Studies) Fiction Award. Her novel, ‘The Sultan’s Daughter,’ was released by Obiter Publishing in 2020. She can be found at janedowning.wordpress.com