Clare Moleta was raised on Whadjuk Noongar Country in Western Australia. Her fiction has been published in literary journals and broadcast on Radio New Zealand, and she has won awards for her travel writing. She has a Writing Diploma from RMI University and an MA in Creative Writing from Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington. She now lives in Pōneke | Wellington, Aotearoa, where she was born. Unsheltered is her first novel.