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.