Maria Tumarkin
Born in 1974 in the former Soviet Union in a Russian Jewish family, which in 1989 immigrated to Australia. Maria Tumarkin has published two previous books, Traumascapes (2005) and Courage (2007). She lives in Melbourne with her two children and is currently working as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne on the international Social Memory and Historical Justice project. Otherland is her latest book, published in April this year.