Brenda Saunders is a Wiradjuri writer and artist, living in Sydney. She has written three collections of poetry and her work has appeared in major anthologies and journals, including Southerly, Quadrant, Australian Poetry Journal, Overland and Best Australian Poems 2013 and 2015 (Black Inc). She is also currently preparing her next collection ‘Understory’, which sharpens the lens on the growing ecological threats to the unique Australian environment since colonisation.