HANNAH BENT

The Hong Kong-born and raised writer and film director promotes diversity and inclusion through her films, writing and outreach programmes. In 2013, Bent was chosen for the Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency, organised by the Australian Society of Authors, to work on her debut novel, which is set in 1997 Hong Kong. When

Things Are Alive They Hum, published this July, follows Marlowe as she returns to her home city of Hong Kong to be with her dying sister, who was born with a heart condition. Bent spent ten years on this book, which dissects moral obligation and grief in the contemporary age.