Carolyn Abbs is a Western Australian poet published in journals and anthologies such as Westerly, Cordite, Rabbit, Axon: Creative Explorations, The Best Australian Poems 2014, and ABR as part of the ‘States of Poetry’ project, 2016. She was Highly Commended in the Dorothy Hewett Unpublished Manuscript Award (2016). Her first poetry collection is forthcoming with UWA Publishing.