Bron Bateman is a queer, crip poet, editor and educator. She has a BA (Hons) and a PhD from Curtin University. Her previous poetry collections are: People from Bones (Ragged Raven Press 2002), Of Memory and Furniture (Fremantle Press 2020), which was Highly Commended in the Victorian Premier s Prize for Poetry in 2021, and Blue Wren (Fremantle Press 2022). She has won the Bobbie Cullen Memorial Award for Poetry (2004), Columbia University s Winter Prize for Poetry (2017), been longlisted for Liquid Amber Press Poetry of Change in 2024 and been shortlisted and commended in the Tom Collins Poetry Prize in 2021 and 2024. She has been published in a range of anthologies and journals including Westerly, Southerly Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review, and Australian Poetry Journal. Her interests are feminism, crip studies, Mad studies, embodiment, queer studies, cultural studies, and writing. She lives in Boorloo (Perth).