Barrina is a Barkindji artist, poet and critic dedicated to writing about topics and themes affecting land, place, culture and history. Her short story Family Tree was recently adapted for the stage by the Mill Theatre, Canberra, and she was commissioned to write an ekphrastic poem for the National Gallery of Australia. Her work has been published in Rabbit, Authora Australis, Kuracca (a First Nations poetry anthology), and a special issue of Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry. Barrina was an invited speaker at the 2023 Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival and was awarded the 2024 Varuna First Nations Fellowship. Her work has been selected for several forthcoming anthologies, with her first collection of poetry currently in development. Barrina is a member of the First Nations Australia Writers Network and a Director of Us Mob Writing (UMW). She lives on Ngunnawl/Ngambri Country.