Lur Alghurabi is an Iraqi writer whose work focuses on migrant memoir and transcultural storytelling. She holds a First Class Honours in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide, and is a regular participant in the Emerging Writers' Festival. In 2017, her non-fiction piece 'Letters from the Grave' won the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers and was shortlisted for the Deborah Cass Prize.
Source: National Young Writers' Festival.