Michael Mohammed Ahmad

MICHAEL MOHAMMED AHMAD is an Arab-Australian writer, editor, teacher and community arts worker. He is the founder and director of Sweatshop, a literacy movement in Western Sydney devoted to empowering culturally and linguistically diverse artists through creative writing. Mohammed's essays and short stories have appeared in the Sydney Review of Books, The Guardian, Heat, Seizure, The Lifted Brow, The Australian and Coming of Age: Australian Muslim Stories. Mohammed received his Doctorate of Creative Arts at Western Sydney University in 2017.

His debut novel, The Tribe, received a 2015 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists of the Year Award. His second novel, The Lebs, won the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Multicultural NSW and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2019.