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LYSTRA ROSE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

ystra, a First Nations multi-award-winning writer, has a background in design and education. She won the Ethel Turner Prize, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, and the Black & Write Fellowship. Lystra shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Readings Prize, and

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