Suneeta Peres da Costa was born in Sydney, Australia, to parents of Goan heritage. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Communication, graduating with first class honors, and the University Medal from the University of Technology, Sydney. Peres da Costa completed a Master of Fine Arts in Writing at Sarah Lawrence College, New York, as a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar. Apart from being a writer of two acclaimed novels, Homework (1999) and Saudade (2018), she works as an editor, mentor, teacher, literary critic, and social policy consultant. Her earlier writings include the short story “Long Division,” which won the Ulitarra Short Story Competition in 1997, and the autobiographical article “Dreamless,” which appeared in the journal Heat (2001). Her novella Oblivion (2001), written while she was at Sarah Lawrence College, is set in pre-independence Rwanda. She has also written numerous plays such as The Art of Straying, Estranged Muse, I Am an Island, and her radio plays Watermark, Angelina’s Song, Children See Everything, and Fire and Water, produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Her plays won several awards, including the Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award, the Ian Reed Foundation Prize for Radio Drama, and the Sydney Theatre Company-ICI Young Playwrights Award. Peres da Costa received the New South Wales Ministry for the Arts Writers in the Park New Writer’s Fellowship in 1998 and was granted a scholarship by the Australian Council for 6 months in the B.R. Whiting Library in Rome.