Maya Hodge is a Lardil and Yangkaal emerging writer and curator based on the lands of the Kulin Nation. Her practice is dedicated to disrupting colonial narratives and centring First Nations storytelling and autonomy. Maya's writing and poetry have been published by Art Collector, Craft Victoria, Kill your Darlings, Hardie Grant, Cordite Poetry Review, and Overland. In 2021, she was selected as a runner-up for the SBS Emerging Writers' Competition and this year was shortlisted for the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize.