Evelyn Araluen is a poet, teacher and researcher working with Indigenous literatures at the University of Sydney. She has written poetry and criticism for a range of publications, including Overland, Southerly, Cordite and Peril. She was the 2017 winner of the Nakata Brophy Award for Young Indigenous Writers and is the coordinator of Black Rhymes Aboriginal Poetry Night. Born and raised on the Dharug lands of Western Sydney, she is a descendant of the Bundjalung nation.