John Martinkus is a four-time Walkley Award–nominated investigative reporter on the Asia and Middle East regions. His eyewitness account of East Timor’s struggle for independence, A Dirty Little War, was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. His books include Travels in American Iraq, Indonesia's Secret War in Aceh, the Quarterly Essay Paradise Betrayed: West Papua’s Struggle for Independence and, most recently, The Road: Uprising in West Papua.