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Sean West is a Meanjin-based poet, disability support worker, and workshop facilitator. He has received an Arts Queensland Individuals Fund grant in 2021 and has been shortlisted for the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize in 2021, 2020 and 2019. He is the founding editor of Blue Bottle Journal.

Find him at www.callmemariah.com

Guido Melo is an Afro-Brazilian-Latinx multilingual author and poet based in Naarm (Melbourne). Currently undertaking a Bachelor of Arts in Writing & Digital Media at Victoria University, his words can be found in Meanjin Quarterly, Kill Your Darlings Magazine, Peril Magazine, Colournary Magazine, Mantissa Poetry, Ascension Magazine, SBS Voices, SBS Portuguese, Cordite, Voz Limpia, Alma Preta Jornalismo and Guia Negro News. Guido is a member of the Sweatshop Literacy Movement, a columnist for Negrê and a contributor to Growing Up African in Australia (Black Inc., 2019) and Racism: Stories on Fear, Hate & Bigotry (Sweatshop, 2021).

Raynen Bajette O’Keefe/Amos is an artist and writer, living and working on unceded Wangal Land. They hold a BA in Film Studies and inhabit the peripheries of dance, somatics, community work, digital media, film, and writing. They have participated in group shows and performances, and their writing-based work has recently been published with Mantissa Poetry Review, The Emerging Writers’ Festival, Scum, Red Room Poetry, Dancehouse Diary, and others.

Josephine Mead is a visual artist, curator & writer, residing on Wurundjeri woi-wurrung Country. She works through photography, sculpture, installation and writing to explore personal notions of support. Her recent work has positioned female family members as support-structures, considered the body as a site of discursive practice, explored notions of deep listening & examined the temporal and sonic nature of writing and photography.

She has exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions, in Australia and abroad. She has undertaken residency programs in rural Victoria (The Macfarlane Fund), Mexico (Arquetopia Foundation), Portugal (Córtex Frontal), Turkey (Tasarim Bakkali TAB) and Germany (ZK/U). She was an inaugural Room to Create studio artist at Collingwood Yards, is Chair of Artistic Directors for Blindside Gallery, co-founder of Co- Publishing (with Christine McFetridge), and Artistic Director of MILK Gallery.