Magdalena McGuire is an award-winning author whose new book, All We Need, explores the nuances of contemporary love and motherhood. Magdalena was awarded a prestigious Faber Writing Academy scholarship to support the development of this novel, which will be published by Ultimo Press in 2025. Magdalena’s short story collection, Born for You, was published by Ultimo Press in 2023 and has been shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards. Deborah Levy praised Magdalena’s writing for being ‘accomplished, complex and surreal’, while the Sydney Morning Herald commended her for being ‘a dab hand at unexpected twists’.