Being selected for two writers' residencies in a row has been the perfect welcome home gift for Greek/Kiwi writer and reviewer, Michalia Arathimos She and her family are preparing to leave the historic Randall Cottage in Wellington after six months as writer in residence there, before heading to Auckland to take up the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship. For the past decade she's been living and working in Melbourne, but says this felt like the right time to return home. While at the historic Randell Cottage Michalia has been working on her second novel which she describes as an exploration of place, migration and identity, through the eyes of a woman of Greek descent.