Kylie Hough is an Arts graduate living on Yugambeh land. In 2015 Kylie received the Lucy Elizabeth Craigie Award, the Richard B Smith Memorial Prize, and the Australian Federation of Graduate Women Inc. (AFGW) NSW (Armidale) UNE ARTS AWARD. She was a finalist in the Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction 2018 and long listed in Room Magazine's 2021 Creative Nonfiction Contest. Kylie is a grateful recipient of a 2021 CA/ASA Award Mentorship (Fiction) and is writing her third novel. Her work can be found in literary journals including Verity La, Posit, Burrow, The Canberra Times, Other Terrain, Antithesis, and The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts.