Books
Poetry
Our Uncles and Old Girls, Cordite 116: Remember 2025
Choice Cuts, Best of Australian Poems Vol 2 2022 & Overland 245: Summer 2021
Rain and Blood, Openbook: Spring 2022
Sandstone Academy, Best of Australian Poems Vol 1 & Rabbit 32: Form 2021
Brother Ocean, Grieve 9: stories and poems of grief and loss 2021
Campfire Constellations, Westerly 66.1 2021
Apocalypse, then (and now, carbon lullabies), Rabbit 30: Long II 2020
Small witch, a shield, Cordite 96: No Theme IX 2020
Purging Words (eavesdrop, exhume), Rabbit 29: Lineages 2019
For Cops Who Stalk Children on Houso Estates, Cordite 93: Peach 2019
Grandmother Ghosts, Cordite 89: Domestic 2019
Reviews
Through a Glass, Darkly – review of Firelight by John Morrissey, Sydney Review of Books 2024
Poetic Tapestries – review of Woven edited by Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Australian Book Review 2024
Think of the Children! – review of Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright, Sydney Review of Books 2023
Skin in the Game – review of Another Day in The Colony by Chelsea Watego, Sydney Review of Books 2022
Everywhen in Everything: reading Carpentaria like an Aboriginal writer, Reading Like an Australian Writer, NewSouth Publishing 2021
Essays
Sweet Country, Shapeshifting: First Nations Lyric Nonfiction, UQP 2024
Yugarie, Words to Sing the World Alive: A Celebration of First Nations Languages, UQP 2024
Introduction to Plains of Promise by Alexis Wright, First Nations Classics series, UQP 2024
Editorial for Odes poetry series (feat. Charmaine Papertalk Green, Jim Everett, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Lionel Fogarty, Jeanine Leane and Tony Birch), Liminal magazine 2024
Lebanese Rites on Dharug Land, Justine Youssef – Somewhat Eternal, Institute of Modern Art 2024
Writing Goori Futures, Writing the Future essay series, Writing NSW 2023
A Road Warrior, Commute essay series, Sydney Review of Books 2022
Communing With Uncle Kev Through The Archives, 1991-2021, Against Disappearance: essays on memory, Liminal x Pantera Press 2022
Stories of Our Dysfunction Have Been Greatly Exaggerated, Writing Gender essay series, Sydney Review of Books 2022
Overture (introduction to This All Come Back Now), Sydney Review of Books 2022
Everywhen: against The Power of Now, Griffith Review 76: Acts of Reckoning 2022
TT Zion, Lost Tablets by Jan van Schaik 2022
The Land is The Law: on climate fictions and relational thinking, Art + Australia 57.1: Multinaturalism 2021
Dear Future Mykaela / who are we now?, The Stories We Tell Ourselves, Spread the Word UK x Melbourne City of Literature 2021
West Footscray Factory Fire (an apocalypse), The Victorian Writer: Oct-Nov 2019
But You Don’t Look Aboriginal, Growing Up Indigenous in Australia 2018 & The Stringer 2014
Short fiction
The Goodness of Their Hearts, Meanjin 82.4 Summer 2023
As I Sat Sadly By Her Side, Into Your Arms: Nick Cave’s Songs Reimagined, Fremantle Press 2023
Ocean Bikies Take Cyclone Season!, Imagine 2200 Editors’ Picks, Grist special series 2023
Terranora, This All Come Back Now, UQP, 2022 & Collisions: Fictions of the Future, Liminal x Pantera Press 2020
The Girls Home, Unlimited Futures: speculative, visionary, blak+black fiction, Fremantle Press 2022
Warm Possibilities, (Story)…Loading 2021
Resource Management, New Australian Fiction, Kill Your Darlings 2021
River Story, Flock: First Nations stories then and now, UQP 2021 & ABR 423 2020
Fire Bug, National Indigenous Story Awards 2020
Long Road Becoming, New Australian Fiction, Kill Your Darlings 2020
Buried Time, Overland 234: Autumn 2019
Research & scholarly work
Reading Climate Fiction (and Nonfiction) through First Nations Cultural Genre Theory, Australian Journal of Environmental Education 2025
Blackfella Futurism: speculative fiction grounded in grassroots sovereignty politics, The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms 2023
Future Tweed: envisioning the possibilities of Bundjalung country, community and culture through speculative fiction, The Routledge Handbook of Australian Indigenous Peoples and Futures 2023
Goori Futurism: envisioning the sovereignty of country, community and culture in the Tweed, Doctor of Arts (creative writing) short story collection and exegesis, University of Sydney 2021
Literature Review – towards a best practise recovery program for Indigenous family and domestic violence, Wollumbin Family Support Inc 2020
Goori Futurism: envisioning the sovereignty of Minjungbal-Nganduwal country, community and culture through speculative fiction, Science Fiction Research Association Review 330: Fall 2019
Living and Dying Countries: ecocide, consciousness and agency in First Nations futurism, Postcolonial Studies Association Newsletter 21: Decolonising Speculative Fiction 2018
Yarning with Minjungbal Women: transgenerational trauma and healing explored through relationships with country and culture, community and family, Master of Education (research) thesis, University of Sydney 2014
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