Hasib Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, arts worker and educator living on unceded Gadigal Country. His debut book, rock flight was published in Australia, the US and the UK. rock flight won the Mary Gilmore Award and the NSWLA Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. It was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry, the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. Hasib is poetry editor of Loom. His writing has been published in Meanjin, Liminal, Overland and Australian Poetry, among others.
From the mountains of Lebanon to the suburbs of Australia, this beautiful debut novel explores the homes we inherit, the ones we build, and the people who shape us.
