Daniel Juckes is a writer from Perth, Western Australia. He is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at UWA, Associate Editor at Westerly magazine, and holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Curtin University. His creative and critical work has been published in journals such as Axon, Life Writing, M/C Journal, TEXT, and Westerly; his research investigates seamlessness in prose style and the potential of objects in stories about the past.