Prema Arasu (they/she) is an adjunct research fellow within the School of English with a specialisation in creative writing and the environmental humanities. Prema has a strong interest in speculative fiction, experimental forms, sea monsters, mythology, multispecies ethnography, oceanic poetics, posthumanities and animalities, and the theory and praxis of worldbuilding.

Prema holds a BA (Hons) in English and Cultural Studies from UWA, a Master of Letters (MLitt) in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture from the University of St. Andrews, and a PhD in Creative Writing from UWA. Their PhD dissertation, titled The Anatomy of Witchcraft: Gender in Secondary Worlds is a full-length work of fantasy that draws upon queer and feminist scholarship to investigate and subvert the expectations of gender from within the genre. In 2023 The Anatomy of Witchcraft was shortlisted for the Fremantle Press Fogarty Literary Award.

From 2022 to 2025, Prema completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre. Prema is interested in the construction of the ocean depths in the cultural imagination as demonstrated by all aspects of popular culture, including nature documentaries, horror films, video games, and science fiction literature.