Nada Awar Jarrar was born in Lebanon to an Australian mother and a Lebanese father. She has lived in London, Paris, Sydney and Washington DC and is currently based in Beirut where she lives with her husband and daughter. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, The Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and Lebanon’s English-language newspaper, The Daily Star. Her first novel, Somewhere, Home won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, Best First Book for Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.