Nadia Rhook is a writer, historian and educator who found freedom in poetry. She’s the author of two history-themed poetry collections: boots (UWA Publishing) and Second Fleet Baby (Fremantle Press), which engage themes of settler ancestry and colonialism, place and language, medicine, in/fertility, childbearing and love.

Her writing appears in Cordite Poetry, Mascara Review, Portside Review, Westerly, The Mantle Poetry, Postcolonial Studies, The Journal of Women’s History, What We Carry: Poetry on Childbearing, Australian Poetry Journal’s 2022 and 2024 Best of Australian Poems, and the newly released Women of a Certain Courage and John Young: The History Projects, among other pages. She’s performed as a feature poet on stages across Naarm and Boorloo, including for the Perth Festival Writer’s Weekend and the Sonic Poetry Festival.

Nadia has researched and lectured in History and Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia, and is currently an Honorary in History at La Trobe University. She can be found finishing a love-story novella, writing a poetry and essay collection about stone, and relishing life in her home city, Ballaarat, on Wadawurrung Country.

Tickets for her upcoming workshop offering, Stories of Stone, are now available!

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