Sam van Zweden is a Melbourne-based writer interested in memory, mental health and the body. Her writing has appeared in the Saturday Paper, Meanjin, The Big Issue, The Lifted Brow, Cordite, the Sydney Review of Books, The Wheeler Centre and others. Eating with My Mouth Open won the 2019 KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award. Her work has been shortlisted for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers, the Lifted Brow and RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction, and the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards.