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Eli Sutherland

Eli (Liz) Sutherland (they/them) is an award-winning poet and writer living on Wurundjeri Country. They are a non-binary, queer, disabled creative, the Treasurer of the Board of Overland, and studying a Master of Arts (Writing and Literature) at Deakin University. Winner of the 2025 Mentone Public Library poetry competition, a finalist in the Pearl Prize 2024 and Frontier Poetry’s 2023 Ekphrastic Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the University of Canberra 2024 Health Poetry Prize. Eli’s writing has appeared in Mascara Review, StylusLit, Swamp Magazine, Left Brain Media, ScratchThat Magazine, Queer Out Here, and more.

The Fox

A discomfort of steering wheels. The red ray of stomach lining. We wonder about the lifespan of a fox: in captivity three to five times that of wildness. Because of us, a cast of stairways, of leaning down, of bad …

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