Soren Tae Smith is a writer and a teacher in the Creative Writing program at the University of Melbourne. She has written for Southerly, TEXT, Antipodes, Antithesis and Written Off, and her creative non-fiction has been longlisted by The Lifted Brow. Honey from the Ground won the Barrow Street Press prize for an unpublished non-fiction manuscript in 2023, judged by Mary Cappello.