DMETRI KAKMI is the author of The Dictionary of a Gadfly (as The Sozzled Scribbler), The Door and Other Uncanny Tales, Mother Land and When We Were Young (as editor). For 15 years he worked as a senior editor at Penguin Books. He was also fiction/non-fiction co-editor for the online literary journal Kalliope X. His essays and short stories appear in various anthologies. Mother Land was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 2008. Haunting Matilda was shortlisted for Best Fantasy Novella for the Aurealis Awards in 2013.