Yuot A. Alaak is an emerging Western Australian writer whose short story ‘The Lost girl of Pajomba’ was anthologised by Margaret River Press in Ways of Being Here. His memoir, Father of the Lost Boys was shortlisted for the 2018 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, and has since been published by Fremantle Press. Yuot is a former child refugee from South Sudan and was part of the globally known ‘Lost Boys of Sudan’. He currently lives in Perth with his family where he works as a mining professional, having attained degrees in the geosciences and engineering.
