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Maggie is a young queer writer of Gamilaroi and settler ancestry with Ngunnawal kinship ties. She makes her home on Ngunnawal dhawura, studying law and going to parties. Her work is a natural byproduct of her navigation of relationships with Country, memory, and women.

Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and teacher from the Murrumbidgee River in south west NSW. She currently works at the University of Melbourne.

Izzy Roberts-Orr is a poet and arts worker based on Wurundjeri Country in regional Victoria. Her debut collection, Raw Salt (Vagabond, 2024) was the recipient of a Marten Bequest Scholarship, Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship and longlisted for the Colorado Prize for Poetry. She is Creative Producer for Red Room Poetry.

Thabani Tshuma is a multi-award-winning Zimbabwean writer and performance poet. His work can be found in publications such as Dichotomi magazine, Cordite Poetry Review, CUBBY ART, and ABC ArtWorks’ SLAMMED segment. Thabani is co-curator of Thin Red Lines and his debut collection, ‘The Gospel of Unmade Creation’, released in 2023 through Recent Work Press.