Lyn Dickens is a writer, editor, and academic living on unceded Kaurna land. Her debut novel Salt Upon the Water was the winner of the 2024 Arts South Australia Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award. Of mixed Singaporean Peranakan Chinese and Anglo Celtic Australian heritage, Lyn is the Managing Editor and Co-Founder of The Saltbush Review. Lyn has been shortlisted and longlisted for a variety of awards including the Deborah Cass Prize, the Lucy Cavendish Prize and the Richell Prize, and she was the winner of a Write It Fellowship with Penguin Random House. Lyn's writing has been published in Australia, the UK, and the USA, appearing in journals such as Kill Your Darlings, ArtsHub, and Liminal. She has a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Sydney and she was a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge. Lyn is a member of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide, where she is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing. After many years in Sydney, Cambridge, and London, Lyn now lives in Adelaide with her husband and two children.