
Amra Pajalić is an editor, teacher and award-winning author who has written young adult fiction, memoir and romance novels. Her debut novel The Good Daughter (Text Publishing, 2009) won the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Civic Choice Award and is re-published as Sabiha’s Dilemma. She is co-editor of the anthology Growing up Muslim in Australia (Allen and Unwin, 2019) shortlisted for the 2015 Children’s Book Council of the Year awards. Her family memoir Things Nobody Knows But Me (Transit Lounge, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 National Biography Award. She is the author of the Sassy Saints Series, an own-voices young adult trilogy published by Pishukin Press, which includes the books Sabiha’s Dilemma, Alma’s Loyalty, and Jesse’s Triumph. She has been successful in obtaining funding applications and has been a panel assessor, and is an award-winning short story writer whose writing has been published in anthologies, journals and in online publications. Her freelance articles have been published in ABC Education, ArtsHub, Kalliope X Journal, The Guardian, The Age, Southerly Journal, Overland, AEU Magazines, Meanjin and SBS Voices. Her romance novels are published under her pen name Mae Archer. Amra is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at La Trobe University.
Specialises in:
- Young adult fiction
- Adult fiction
- Memoir
- Romance
- Funding applications
- Short stories
- Self-publishing