Peter Polites is a novelist from Western Sydney. He has written two queer noirs, Down the Hume and The Pillars, which won the 2020 NSW Premier’s Multicultural Literary Award. He also won the 2020 Woollahra Digital Literature Prize for Fiction. In 2021 he was the ACT Writer in Residence at UNSW Canberra. His third novel is God Forgets About the Poor – is a bio fictional novel about his mothers life, anchored in the form of a Greek Tragedy. This year he is the Fairfield Think & Do artist in residence.