Nadia Rhook is a white settler poet, historian, and educator, currently living in Boorloo/ Perth. She has a PhD in History from La Trobe University and is interested in decolonial ways of understanding the past-present. Her poetry appears in various journals and anthologies including Cordite Poetry Review, Peril, Australian Poetry Journal, Portside Review and What We Carry: Poetry on Childbearing (Recent Work Press). Her first poetry collection is Boots (UWA Publishing, 2020), and her second collection, Second Fleet Baby, was released by Fremantle Press in 2022.