Vasilka Pateras is an Australian Macedonian poet who lives in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work is published in local and overseas journals including n-SCRIBE, The Blue Nib, Mediterranean Poetry, Poetry on the Move, Eureka Street and Backstory Journal, Teesta Journal and Mascara Literary Review, Hecate, Kalliope X and Cordite.  Vasilka regularly reads as part of the Melbourne Spoken Word community and was the feature poet at Girls on Key in May 2021 and Radio Laria 2022 and 2023.