Megan Cheong is a teacher, writer and critic living on Wurrundjeri Woi Wurrung land. She was a 2022 CA-SRB Emerging Critic, and her criticism has been published in Sydney Review of Books and Meanjin among other publications. Her essays have appeared in Liminal and Kill Your Darlings, and her stories in Going Down Swinging, Mascara Literary Review and Portside Review.