Hot Desk Edition #3

Ingrid Baring is a Melbourne writer, performer and poet. Currently she is working on her manuscript, White Safa – a memoir that investigates the legacy of her early childhood in apartheid South Africa.

Ingrid’s writing has been published in the Victorian Writer, Womankind and My Buffer Guest, and her short story 'Pernilla’s Pusillanimous Error' was commissioned by the Squid.

She was a café poet at Mileto’s café and later installed her extended love poem in an op shop window. Selected for Canberra’s HARDCOPY programme to develop her current manuscript, she was also artist-in-residence at Chantilly Studio, where she worked the early stages of White Safa.

Ingrid has a long inactive blog, Oh Platypus – and is now setting up the cheerfully named Frankie Goes Giraffe to document her creative process and activate her sleeping dragon-blogger.

Bobuq Sayed is a writer, multidisciplinary artist and community organiser of the Afghan diaspora. They coordinate an LGBTIQA+ mentoring program at Queerspace, they are the 2019 guest editor of Un Magazine and, in a former life, they edited the online and print arms of Archer Magazine, Australia’s leading journal of sex, gender and identity. Their work has appeared in numerous publications and festivals and they are a core member of Embittered Swish, an all trans and non-binary performance collective.

Grace De Morgan is a freelance writer and playwright. She has written for ATYP, Bondi Feast, Good News Week, Junkee, news.com.au, Old Fitz Theatre, Playwriting Australia, Seizure, Sydney Morning Herald and The Roast. She is currently under commission with Penguin Random House.

Mindy Gill’s poems have appeared in Australian Poetry Journal, Hecate, Mascara Literary Review, Island Magazine, Award Winning Australian Writing and elsewhere. She has won the Tom Collins Poetry Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and the Queensland Premier’s Young Writers and Publishers Award. She is Peril magazine’s Editor-in-Chief.

August Burns the Sky is a collection of poems that speak with intimacy on longing, grief, and the ephemeral.

Lorelei Vashti is the author of Dress Memory: A Memoir of My Twenties in Dresses (2014) and How to Choose Your Baby’s Last Name (2016). Her writing has been included in Best Australian Comedy Writing (2016), Mothermorphosis (2015), and the Women of Letters book series. She co-curates the Women of Letters events in Australia, and also runs Jacky Winter Gardens, a guesthouse and artist retreat in the Dandenong Ranges.

Jane Howard is a contributing editor at Kill Your Darlings, and a freelance arts journalist, critic and researcher with a focus on performance. Her work has appeared in publications including ABC Arts Online, RealTime, Meanjin and Junkee, and her experimental criticism projects have been supported by organisations including the Lifted Brow and the Performance and Art Development Agency.

Translated into multiple languages, she has worked for the Guardian across Australia and in Asia, and her work has been commissioned in Scotland, Canada, and the Czech Republic. She was the director of the 2016 Digital Writers’ Festival and coordinator of HIVE at the 2017 Adelaide Film Festival. She is currently writing a book about art and grief.