Contributors
- Contributors
Hani Abdile is a writer and spoken word poet based in Sydney. After spending months in immigration detention, she found healing in writing poetry. Hani is an honorary member of PEN international and a lead member of Writing Through Fences. She has received numerous awards for her community work and achievements. Hani performs in the Sydney poetry scene, which makes her heart beat endlessly for the love and happiness poetry brings. Her first book, I Will Rise, was published in 2016 by Writing Through Fences.
Kaiya Aboagye is a doctoral candidate at the University of Sydney. Her research highlights the trans-cultural connections between Indigenous Australia and the global African Diaspora. She would like to thank and acknowledge Wilo Muwadda (Kalkatunga Nation, Allawarra of the Eastern Arrernte) for the many philosophical discussions on indigeneity and blackness which contributed to her article "Australian Blackness."
Mohamed Adam is a Sudanese writer and political prisoner incarcerated by the Australian government on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea.
Adams Adeosun is a student of architecture at a university in Nigeria. His works have appeared in Brittle Paper, African Writer, Lunaris Review, This is Africa, Litro Magazine and Catapult. He participated in Goethe-Institut's Nigeria-Cameroon literary exchange workshops in 2017 and is at work on a collection of short stories.
Vernon Ah Kee's conceptual text pieces, videos, photographs and drawings critique Australian culture from an Aboriginal perspective. His works respond to the history of the romantic and exoticized portraiture of "primitives," and reposition the Aboriginal away from the historical role of the "other." He wants the reveal Aboriginals for the vivid and vital human beings that they are. Ah Kee's work has been exhibited in a number of significant national and international exhibitions.
ruby onyinyechi amanze is a visual artist whose practice is primarily centered around drawing and works on paper. In a non-linear and open narrative, her drawings explore space as a malleable construct. Design, architecture, roller skating, and the movement language of Gaga are a few aspects of her current research and artistic practice. Amanze has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including in New York, Johannesburg, Miami, Paris, London and Lagos.
Firelei Báez is a Dominican artist based in New York and Miami whose work explores the experiences of Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latinx women. Báez has exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the United States, including—currently—the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York. Báez will also be featured in the 2018 Berlin Biennale.
Richard Bell lives in Brisbane, Australia, and works across a variety of media: painting, installation, performance and video. He came of age among a generation of Aboriginal activists, and remains committed to the politics of Aboriginal emancipation and self-determination. His work has been collected by galleries and museums throughout Australia and the world.
Gila K. Berryman received her MFA from New York University. Her work has appeared in Lilith Magazine and Entropy, and is forthcoming in Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, and Stitch. She is working to finish her first novel.
Tony Birch is the author of two novels, Blood (2011), and Ghost River (2015). He has also published four short story collections: Shadowboxing (2006), Father's Day (2009), The Promise (2014) and Common People (2017). He has received several literary awards, including the Victorian Premier's Literary Award (2016) and the prestigious Patrick White Literary Prize (2016). Tony Birch is also a professorial research fellow at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia.
Quintin Collins is a managing editor and poet who lives in the Boston area. He is an MFA candidate finishing his final semester at the Solstice MFA program at Pine Manor College, and he works in digital marketing. His creative writing has also appeared in Glass Mountain, Threshold, Eclectica, and elsewhere. Additionally, Quintin publishes articles on writing craft for content marketing via his employer's company blog.
Michael Cook is a Brisbane-based photomedia artist of Bidjara heritage. Cook's photographs restage Australia's colonial history and re-imagine the contemporary reality of indigenous populations. To confront discrimination, his images muddle and reverse racial and social roles. He invites viewers to...
