NANGAMAY MANA DJURALI (Dream, Gather, Grow)

Dominic Guerrera is a Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna and Italian person. He is a poet, podcaster and writer, and his work has been published in Artlink Magazine, Granta Magazine, Cordite Review  and IndigenousX. Dominic created and co-hosted The ASH Podcast from 2018-2020, with live shows at Melbourne Writers Festival and Adelaide’s Feast Festival. As a curator, Dominic has produced two exhibitions for Nexus Arts – Circles to Us in 2020 and Staunch in 2022, the latter of which also featured in the Art Gallery of South Australia’s Tarnanthi Festival. In 2021 Dominic was the guest curator for the Context Writers Festival. In 2021 Dominic was awarded the Ooodgerro Noonuccal Poetry Prize.

Natalie Harkin is a Narungga woman living on Kaurna Yarta. She is a poet and research fellow at Flinders University with an interest in decolonising state archives, currently engaging archival-poetic methods to research and document Aboriginal women's domestic service and labour histories in SA. Her books include Dirty Words and Archival-poetics. 

Colin Kinchela is a Gomeroi Muri, born and raised on Country in the north-west what is known as the state of NSW. He is an independently based and trained Artist, and qualified educator with over two decades of creative practice, engagement and experience working works across a sweep of performance mechanisms.

He has performed with theatre companies, Belvoir St, Ilbijerri Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Performance Space and Moogahlin Performing Arts Inc. A founding member of the interdisciplinary theatre and online artist association, Cope ST Collective; and Sean Jorvn.

Working in the independent arts sector with the long-term core and impassioned interests of how First Nations stories are created and presented Colin dedicates his time to educating others on the principles of Transformational Ethical Storytelling at Our Race. His integral role in the development of the Transformational Ethical Storytelling framework, which has included collaboration with Story Holders, advocacy groups and law firms Terri Janke and Company and Marque Lawyers.

‘Gugurrgaagaa ’93 Where a heart like mine belongs' is his first published poem through Black Books part of Nangamay Mana Djurali (dream, gather, grow) First Nations Anthology. Colin is currently is a Company Director at Our Race, and works in Policy and Partnerships at Create NSW.

Tyberius Larking is an Indigenous writer and visual artist of trans experience based on Kaurna land.

Luke Patterson is a Gamilaroi poet, folklorist and musician living on Gadigal lands. His poetry has appeared in Cordite, Plumwood Mountain, Rabbit, Running Dog and The Suburban Review. He has also featured in the anthologies Active Aesthetics, Firefront: First Nations Poetry and Power Today and Best of Australian Poems 2021. His research and creative pursuits are grounded in extensive work with First Nations and other community-based organisations across Australia. 

Steven Lindsay Ross is a Wamba Wamba man from Deniliquin, with familial and cultural connections to the Wiradjuri, Mutthi Muthi and Gunditjmara peoples. He is a producer, curator, writer and works in First Peoples engagement and strategy. He lives and loves on Dharug Country.

Latoya Aroha Rule is a Wiradjuri/ Māori, Takatāpui/ Queer Research Associate and PhD candidate at Jumbunna Institue for Indigenous Education & Research, UTS. In 2020, they were selected as one of five racial justice "Guardians of the Year" in Time Magazine’s "People of the Year" edition, and as one of Deloitte’s Out50 LGBTQ+ Leaders of the Year. In 2022, Rule was a finalist for the Australian Human Rights Commission - Human Rights Medal for their work on anti-torture and legislative reforms. They and their words have been featured in Time, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery of South Australia, and in exhibitions in New York, Berlin and the UK. 

Ellen van Neerven is a Mununjali writer and editor. They are the author of Heat and Light, Comfort Food and Throat. 

Alison Whittaker is a Gomeroi poet and a Senior Researcher at the Jumbunna Institute.