Mishka Gora is the author of Fragments of War and has written about faith, conscience, and international justice for more than a decade in publications such as Quadrant, Catholic365, and The Times of Israel. An erstwhile historian (trained at Monash, UCLA, Brown, and UTas), she is the winner of the 2007 George Yule Essay Prize and featured in the 2012 Croatian documentary film Udruzena Nepravda (Joint Injustice). Mishka is married with four home-educated children and is passionate about tall ships, sword-fighting, and historical costume and cuisine.