Jennifer Mills is the author of the novels The Airways (Picador, 2021), Dyschronia (Picador, 2018), Gone (UQP, 2011), and The Diamond Anchor (UQP, 2009) and a collection of short stories, The Rest Is Weight (UQP, 2012).

If you could go anywhere tomorrow, where would it be, and why?

Home to Kaurna Yerta (Adelaide). I should be there already, but when the federal government halved the international arrivals cap my flights were cancelled at the last minute. I’m now one of many thousands of Australians stranded overseas – in Italy, in my case.