Susie Anderson

Susie Anderson writes from the nexus of compassion and resistance. Her poetry and nonfiction is widely published in print and online. She is a Black&Write! 2021 Fellow and is currently working on a poetry manuscript. Descended from the Wergaia and Wemba Wemba peoples of Western Victoria, she grew up in Horsham, Victoria and currently lives on Boon Wurrung land in Melbourne.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.