Nadia Rhook is a 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, in/fertility, childbearing and love.

Her writing appears in Cordite Poetry, Mascara Review, Portside Review, Westerly, The Mantle Poetry, Postcolonial Studies, 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.

Currently, Nadia can be found working on a hybrid poetry and essay collection relating to the life of stone and relishing life with her family in her home city, Ballaarat, on Wadawurrung Country.

Tickets for her upcoming workshop offerings, Writing with Water and Stories of Stone, are now available!

Please contact Nadia if you’d like to join her mailing list and be notified of future ticket release in advance.