Lenora Thaker is a proud Torres Strait Islander woman from Erub and Mabuiag, living on Yidinji country in far north Queensland. She is a descendant of the Torres Strait Islanders of Malaytown (a makeshift town on the Cairns swampland from the late 1800s to the early 1950s), who are the inspiration for this story. Lenora Thaker won the Boundless Mentorship for The Pearl of Tagai Town.