Micaela Sahhar

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Micaela Sahhar is an Australian-Palestinian writer and educator living on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Her essays, poetry and commentary have appeared in Cordite, Meanjin, Overland, Southerly and Sydney Review of Books, among others. Her first book, Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: an encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family (NewSouth) was long-listed for the 2026 Stella Prize and won the 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction.

Image credit: Tim Herbert

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Easter cakes

MemoirI find I cannot cry on the day of the funeral or for many nights after the news of Ellen’s death and it is as if I am stunned by this loss, as if I am too close to this absence for it to mean anything yet, until two weeks later when I take the handle of the mould in my hands and lay the flat back of it against my cheek, and I cry and I cry.

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