Mer­av Fima is a writer, trans­la­tor, and lit­er­ary schol­ar based in Mel­bourne, Aus­tralia. She holds a Ph.D. in Cre­ative Writ­ing from Monash Uni­ver­si­ty and her work has appeared in antholo­gies and lit­er­ary jour­nals world­wide, includ­ing: Mean­jin Quar­ter­ly, Parch­ment, Poet­i­ca Mag­a­zine, and The Aus­tralian Book Review. She was award­ed a grant for excep­tion­al­ly tal­ent­ed writ­ers, as well as for her trans­la­tion of Gal Ven­tu­ra’s schol­ar­ly mono­graph, Mater­nal Breast-Feed­ing and Its Sub­sti­tutes in Nine­teenth-Cen­tu­ry French Art (Brill, 2018). Sev­er­al of her short sto­ries have been hon­ored in lit­er­ary con­tests, and her forth­com­ing nov­el, The Rose of Thir­teen Petals and the Pome­gran­ate Tree, was short­list­ed for the Wingate Award for Unpub­lished Man­u­scripts. Vis­it mer​av​fi​ma​.com.