Our Authors

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Theo is an Irish Autistic trans QueerCrip artist living, creating, and resting on Kaurna Land. Theo predominately works with pencil and paper, inspired by queer and disabled artists of the past and present. He is known for his portraits focused on community leaders, the beautiful faces of Queer and Disabled people, created to remember their power and impact on our stories. Theo spends his time resting his body-mind and building safer community spaces with a passion for abolition and land back.

Freddie Foeng is a queer Asian-Australian artist that enjoys exploring the nuances of humanity through a range of expressions, favouring movement and words to convey their experiences in the world. Forever curious about identity, society, and how these influences shape our lives, they like to learn by exploring all the art forms they can. With firm roots in street dance, they are passionate about community and represent the Adelaide-based crew, Freak Nation. Primarily working on Kaurna Land, they were a part of the OzAsia CAAP Artist Lab in 2022 and 2023, and Music SA’s Equaliser project in 2021. When they’re not dancing or writing, you can find them at their day job, nose deep in a book, or dreaming about pastries and ice cream.

Dr KJ Hepworth is a settler coloniser, writer, designer and researcher living and working on unceded Ngarrindjeri Land. Their disability justice-led, transmedia work surfaces how power intertwines data, functional capacity, kinship, knowledge traditions, and visual cultures. Known for exploring these intersections in zines and public speaking, their expansive creative production includes ephemeral

and installation art, zines, poetry, data visualisation, explainers, moving image, and augmentative communication devices.

Dr Hepworth’s work opens up relational, somatic, and tactile experiences that transmute the tension between inherited creative and destructive experiences of power. Disability, gender, hearing and sexuality marginalisations inform how their work centres access, reciprocity, and solidarity. Central themes of this work are co-creating emancipatory visions of the future, and designing accessible tools to step toward them.

Sally Ann Hunter was a biologist and environmental policy officer (BSc [Biol], MEnv Sts.) and is now a writer and poet. She has published a collection of poetry called The Structure of Light and a biography called You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down: from Parkinson’s to a new life with Deep Brain Stimulation. A paper she wrote on the biography was read on ABC Radio’s Ockham’s Razor, as was a paper

on living with solar power. She completed a ten-month course called Manuscript Incubator through Writers SA. Also through Writers SA, she participated in Poetry Studio on Zoom with Jill Jones over several months. Her novel called Transfigured Sea (Nature Writing) was published in 2022 and another called Golden Cups (Historical Fiction) is in the process of publisher’s revision. A number of her poems have been published in anthologies and online. She lives in the Adelaide Hills where she gains inspiration for much of her Nature Writing.

J.A.M. (ze/hir, they/them) is a multi-disciplinary creative, who was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and has resided on Kaurna land for most of hir life. Ze is a student of digital media and engineering, a writer, an amateur actor, and a musician, as well as a visual artist who operates in a variety of mediums. J.A.M. is interested in exploring a broad range of themes, from power dynamics and socio-political issues to the power of friendship and how to stay silly in unsilly times. You can see hir work on instagram @jam.exe7 or on tumblr @jam-exe.

Hi there from Fig Kershaw. Fig’s pronouns are he or they. They’re physically disabled and use a wheelie walker and an ostomy bag. They’re also mentally ill with schizoaffective disorder and autism. Basically, his body be broken and they hear voices. It’s all part of the Figgy package! They’ve learned to embrace their vulnerabilities and struggles as everyone should. Unfortunately, disableds and neurodivergent peeps are taught shame and told they need fixing instead of working with what they’re given. He loves creating body inclusive art. He makes colouring books and sell them at local art markets. Everyone should see themselves in art.

Victoria Knight is a white, fat, queer, disabled researcher and creative type living on Kaurna Land. They are a PhD candidate in cultural studies, researching the intersections between fat and queer lived experiences. Outside of academia, they are a writer and occasional performer. Spanning the breadth of their research and creative pursuits is a commitment to fat and queer liberation, and the indelible influence of their own lived experiences with mental illness and neurodivergence.

Her name is Tabitha, or as her ancestors know her, Budhin Mingaan. She is a First Nations woman living, loving, creating and dreaming on Kaurna Yerta. She is a published poet, writer, spoken word and visual artist, exploring the tension between the new and old worlds, and the spaces in between. She believes that who we are and what we are comes from the alchemy of our struggles, and all of her work, from her poetry to her pyrography and weaving seeks to honour the old, while traversing the present to carve out a future that holds within it both possibility and promise. She’s also an abolition activist determined to disrupt the colonial project and abolish the prison industrial complex—and she’s fucking angry, channelling every bit of that rage towards challenging the colonial carceral state.

Leon McAloney is a queer, disabled artist who spends most of his time at the moment just resting. While he would love to spend all his time working on art and supporting all the artists he adores, he has had to take a lot of time for himself. Every now and then he’ll emerge from his hermit hovel with four thousand words or some equivalent form of art showcasing the deeply personal, referring to his own experiences of disability, queerness, and trauma, before returning to another unspecified period of radio silence.

Jace Reh (he/she/they) is a queer, disabled Gamilaroi person living

on Kaurna Yerta, raised on Narrunga country. With a passion for words and social justice, she endeavours to create deeply personal works that speak to his journeys of self-discovery and community building. Jace and their partner Theo have created Collaborative Radical Intersectional Performance Spaces  (CRIPS) in the hopes of bringing together non-normative body-minds to create the perfect space to learn from one another.

Anneliese Abela is a writer and PhD candidate at the University of South Australia. Her creative pieces and news articles have been published both in print and online, and her research focuses on WWI history, Australian war literature, and the power of fiction in recapturing the past. She has recently finished her first historical novel: a tale of friendship, grief, and survival amidst the futility of war. Her writing can be followed on Instagram at @anneliese.abela.author

Aden Burg is an Adelaide-based creative writer who graduated from the University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Creative Writing. His detective short story, ‘No Return’, was published in the 2018 edition of the University of South Australia’s creative writing anthology series Piping Shrike. Aden’s passion is reading and writing fast-paced stories with unusual characters, a proclivity that bleeds into his research specialty of creative writing and visual storytelling in manga.

Chloe Cannell writes short stories for teens and adults. Her characters are often queer and anxious like her. She is completing her creative writing PhD at the University of South Australia. Her thesis explores LGBTQIA+ representation in contemporary young adult fiction. Chloe is a fan of many things including musicals, cabaret, sitcoms, comedy podcasts, and the many forms of cooked potatoes. She lives on Kaurna country with her partner. Keep up with Chloe on her Instagram @chloejcannell where she rants about social justice and shares jokes from Tik Tok. 

Dante is an Adelaide-based creative with a life-long passion for artistry. In recent times, her focus has been on honing her skills as a writer, having graduated from a Bachelor of Journalism and Professional Writing, a Bachelor of Arts (English and Creative Writing), and receiving a First Class Honours Degree. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at the University of South Australia with the goal of promoting social inclusivity and equality through work focussed on diversifying queer representation in research and creative outputs. Dante’s work can be followed on Instagram at @dante_debono.

Lyndal Hordacre Kobayashi loves experimenting with all things colourful and creative, whether it’s her PhD journey in the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures, her mud-brick house, gardening, playing the violin, knitting, or creative writing. She has lived and worked as a visual artist, with 15 years in Europe and Japan, and is now using her background in the arts to encourage monolingual research participants to explore their lived experiences with language(s). Lyndal hopes to demonstrate the potential and relevance of heralding new knowledge by stepping into a sphere of creative activity, mystery, and discovery.

Lyndal has been interested in language and visual, critical, and creative forms of connecting for all of her professional life. She was fortunate enough to be selected to enter the National Academies of Fine Art in both Oslo and Vienna and has performed, danced, and exhibited in Europe, Japan, and Australia. She now lives in the Adelaide Hills, writing her PhD, working as a transpersonal art therapist, and caring for her youngest daughter with Down Syndrome. She speaks English, Norwegian and Japanese.

Lyndal has presented her creative work at the Drawing International Symposium in Brisbane, Queensland in 2015 and the Australiasian Association of Writing Programs in 2020. She has also contributed to the 2021 article, ‘Reimagining the reading group: critically creative connectivity, care and resilience in academic cultures of challenge and change’ and has her Master of Philosophy research, 'Researching the mindsets of monolinguals: a “linguistic self” of twenty-first century monolingual art students in Australia’ (2017) published online.

Evan Jarrett is an Honours Candidate in Creative Writing at the University of South Australia. His work explores how fictional world-making can communicate the complex intersections between climate change, class, and the multiplicity of place.

Evan was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and has long been fascinated with how places impact him, physically, emotionally, and, on a deeper level, spiritually. Growing up in a working-class suburb, he often reflects on how people both shape and are shaped by the places they interact with. He frequently wonders, with the multitudes of ways in which climate change is impacting on places across the world, how people from different backgrounds and in different situations will be shaped by climate change themselves, and how they may respond to this.

Belinda Lees is a PhD candidate researching screenwriting under the supervision of Prof Craig Batty and Dr Amelia Walker through the University of South Australia. She previously completed an MA in screenwriting at Cornwall’s Falmouth University.

Since then, she has had short films and a feature titled The Clearing produced by John Finnegan’s screenwriting podcast The Script Department. Belinda has contributed around twenty comic children’s plays to Australia’s leading children’s literary magazine The School Magazine. She is a past winner of the Todhunter Literary Award, which she won for a one-act absurdist play.

She works as an educator in a secondary school, teaching media and literature to senior students, where she draws on her credentials in performing arts, literature, media, and screenwriting. 

Lily May Roberts (she/her) is a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) student at UniSA focusing on auto-ethnographic poetic practice. She was born and raised in Adelaide and her work concentrates on recovery from trauma and addiction through an engagement with the sensory and the spiritual. Lily is especially interested in exploring how poetry crosses over with mindfulness, the phenomenology of the embodied poet, and the development of an ecological method of relating that encourages systems-thinking for situating the self. Further down the track, she is interested in cultivating her own poetry therapy approach for recovering addicts and sexual assault survivors.

Lily was awarded the Cecil Teesdale Smith Literary Award in 2021.

It was during his high school years when Eugene Tabios had been first lured in by the wonder of the minutiae, discovering and eventually submitting flash fiction to Sobrang Short Stories. In 2016, his 100-word story, ‘Christmas Eve’, won fourth place and his later, even shorter piece, ‘The Fateful Day’, written under his penname Placido Penitorpe, received publication in The Best of Sobrang Short Stories.

When he moved from the Philippines to Australia, Eugene decided to pursue a career in humanities, a stark contrast to his initial plan to be an accountant. Since then, he has dedicated himself to discovering new things, studying their intricacies, embracing their fleetingness, and putting them in writing, guided by his self-coined mantra to ‘observe and preserve’.

Eugene is an emerging writer currently undertaking his Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and Linguistics at the University of South Australia.