Cynthia Banham is a writer, journalist and lawyer. She is the author of three non-fiction books and previously worked as a journalist in the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery in Canberra. Liberal Democracies and the Torture of their Citizens was based on her PhD. A Certain Light: A memoir of family, loss and hope was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Her most recent book is Mother Shadow: A meditation on maternal inheritance, published by Upswell.
