Nadia Rhook (she/her) is a writer, historian, editor and educator who found freedom in poetry. She’s the author of three history-themed poetry collections: boots (UWA Publishing) and Second Fleet Baby (Fremantle Press), which engage themes of Anglo-Celtic ancestry and settler colonialism, place and language, medicine, in/fertility and parenting. Her latest collection, Stone Veins, traces histories of bluestone mining, ecology and haunting, and will be released by Cordite Books in August 2026.

Nadia’s writing appears in Cordite Poetry, Mascara Review, Island, 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, Women of a Certain Courage and John Young: The History Projects, among other pages.

Passionate about placed-based and embodied ways of connecting with the past, she has designed and delivered public walking tours for the Melbourne Writer’s Festival, Victorian History Week, and the Asia 21 Summit, and performed as a feature poet across Naarm, Ballaarat and Boorloo, including for the Perth Festival 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 writing about colonialism, water, health and love in her home city, Ballaarat, on Wadawurrung Country.

Please contact Nadia if you’d like to learn more about her editing, mentoring, or manuscript assessment services, or if you’d like to join her mailing list and be notified of future workshop ticket release in advance.