Prema Arasu is a writer and academic at the Deep-Sea Research Centre at the University of Western Australia. Their research utilises transdisciplinary and creative methods to investigate the aesthetics of the deep sea. Prema has a PhD in Creative Writing and continues to teach English and Literary Studies at UWA. They have published stories, poems and scholarly articles on the deep sea, video games, gender, weird fiction and monsters. In 2023, Prema’s fantasy novel, The Anatomy of Witchcraft, was shortlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award.
