Damien Becker

Damien Becker lives and writes on Bundjalung Country in Murwillumbah, Northern NSW. His poetry draws on a lifetime of navigating chronic illness as someone with cystic fibrosis and as a double-lung transplant recipient. An award-winning spoken word artist who has performed nationally and internationally over the past decade, his poems have featured in Best of Australian Poems, Australian Poetry Journal, Suburban Review, Northerly, and Regional Review, among others. Damien won the 2024 Flying Islands Manuscript Prize for his debut poetry collection Thin Reed Throat, to be published by Flying Islands in 2026.