Rowena Lennox lives on Gweagal country and is an adjunct in the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney. She is the author of Dingo Bold: The life and death of K’gari dingoes (2021) and Fighting Spirit of East Timor: The life of Martinho da Costa Lopes (2000), which won a NSW Premier’s History Award. Her prize-winning essays and stories have been widely published.