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Josephine Shevchenko

Josephine Shevchenko (she/her) is an emerging writer based in Canberra on unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country. Her chapbook Journey: A Cancer Story was published by Ginninderra Press in 2022. She has won prizes for poetry competitions judged by Eileen Chong (2022) and Omar Musa (2025). Her work will soon appear in Antipodes, and in 2024 her short story “Sundays” was published by Stringybark Press.

Bangka → Australia

No Tom Toms in the 70s, growing up was knowledge acquired like palm trees, tall as the rain. At six I cracked my forehead on a kombi’s bench ftch ftch ftch ftch, forming a new topography a nurse’s sickle and …

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