Brooke Maddison is a writer and editor working on unceded Turrbal and Yuggera land in Brisbane. Her writing has been published in Kill Your Darlings, The Guardian, Antithesis, Mascara Literary Review, Verity La, the Spineless Wonders Queer as Fiction anthology and ACE III: Arresting Contemporary Stories by Emerging Writers, among others. She is the recipient of a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter fellowship, a UQP mentorship and a Curtis Brown Creative HW Fisher Novel-Writing Scholarship, and was highly commended for the 2023 Peter Blazey Fellowship. 

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