Roanna Gonsalves is the author of The Permanent Resident (UWAP) which won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award Multicultural Prize 2018, and is longlisted for the Dobbie Literary Award 2018. Her writing has been compared to the work of Alice Munro and Jhumpa Lahiri. Her book has quickly found a place on a number of lists of must-read books, and is on the syllabi of courses at several universities. Roanna is a recipient of the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Award, and a co-founder, co-editor of Southern Crossings. She has a PhD from the University of New South Wales. The Permanent Resident is published in South Asia as Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney (Speaking Tiger).