Merav Fima is a PhD candidate in the Literary and Cultural Studies program at Monash University. Her prose and poetry have appeared in a number of anthologies and literary journals, including Verge, Colloquy, and Meanjin. Her short story ‘Bride Immaculate’ won the first prize in the Energheia Literary Competition in Matera, Italy (2014) and ‘Rose among the Thorns’ was a finalist in the Tiferet literary journal’s 2019 fiction contest. She is the translator of Gal Ventura’s scholarly monograph, Maternal Breast-Feeding and Its Substitutes in Nineteenth-Century French Art (Brill, 2018). She is currently at work on her first novel and a collection of short stories.