Vanessa Berry is a writer who works with memory, history, archives, and objects. She is the author of four books, most recently GENTLE AND FIERCE (2021), a memoir about human and animal relationships, and the award-winning MIRROR SYDNEY (2017), about urban environments and change, based on the popular Mirror Sydney blog. She is the author of the autobiographical zine series I AM A CAMERA and her zine and illustration works have been exhibited at major Australian galleries. She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Sydney.