Jason Beale is a writer from Melbourne. His poems have appeared in journals including Bluepepper, Meniscus, Quadrant and Stylus Lit, and in the anthologies Grieve, Poetry d’Amour and Poetica Christi. He has published a poetry chapbook ‘Be Quiet About Love’ (Picaro Poets/Ginninderra Press, 2023), and in 2024 was a finalist in both the Poetica Christi Press and Flying Island Poetry Competitions.