Amanda Jayne Stewart is an emerging writer from Bundjalung Country/ the Northern Rivers, currently living on Wangal land in Sydney. Her novel manuscript was awarded a 2026 Varuna Residential Fellowship, and her short stories have appeared in The Suburban Review, Spineless Wonders, Firewords Magazine UK, and elsewhere. She holds an MPhil in comparative literature from Oxford University and is currently completing a Master of Creative Writing at the University of Sydney.