Priya Nadesalingam was born in Sri Lanka and arrived in Australia as an asylum seeker. She now lives with her husband Nades and daughters Kopika and Tharnicaa in Biloela, Queensland. Rebekah Holt is a journalist and writer. For five years, she was the only journalist to gain regular access to the country's onshore detention centres. Her reporting has appeared in Crikey, SBS, The Age, The Guardian, Radio NZ and The Saturday Paper.