52MenPodcast EP11 Saradha Koirala HomeBase by 52 Men the Podcast

In her story "Home Base" New Zealander Saradha Koirala tells a slowly churning story set in a children's playground. Despite the youth of its narrator, the story reveals the intense pressure on her to conform both to patriarchal and dominant values.

Saradha Koirala was born in 1980 of Nepali and Pakeha decent and is the author of the poetry collections Wit of the Staircase (Steele Roberts 2009) and Tear Water Tea (2013) and the YA novel Lonesome When You Go (Makaro Press, 2016). She currently lives in Melbourne where she's been working on two more novels and a third volume of poetry.