Alice Pung OAM is a Melbourne writer and teacher whose award-winning books include Unpolished Gem, Her Father’s Daughter, Laurinda,Close to Home, and One Hundred Days. She is the editor of the anthologies Growing Up Asianin Australia and My First Lesson, and the current Artist in Residence at Janet Clarke Hall, the University of Melbourne. In 2022 Alice was awarded an Order of Australia for her services to Literature.
