Dickens is an award-winning writer, editor, and academic living on unceded Kaurna land. Her debut novel Salt upon the Water is forthcoming with Wakefield Press in 2025, and was the winner of the 2024 Arts South Australia Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award as part of the South Australian Literary Awards. The manuscript also previously won a Write It Fellowship with Penguin Random House. Lyn is the Managing Editor and Co- Founder of The Saltbush Review. Her writing has been published in Australia and internationally, appearing in journals such as Kill Your Darlings, Liminal, and Mascara Literary Review. Website: lyndickens.com