Kyla St JayeKyla St Jaye is Mparntwe based (Alice Springs NT), writing from Arrernte country. She works in memoir and creative nonfiction. She studied BA Comms Creative Writing on Ngunnawal country at University of Canberra, where she won an ACT Writers Centre Witing for Young People award and was featured in several publications. Kyla took this practice into the women's refuges on Yuin country (Far South Coast, NSW) where she facilitated the She sees distance in all directions writing programs under feminist and narrative therapy frameworks. These writing workshops yielded several publications, launches and performances of participants' collected writings. Her programs recognised stories as transformative power sites for women who had experienced trauma, homelessness and domestic violence and used creative practice to position women as the authors of their own lives. Kyla's creative nonfiction piece Holding Patterns placed in the 2022 Joyce Parkes women's writing prize 2022. Read More Read Less