Barrina South

Barrina is a Barkindji artist and poet dedicated to writing about topics and themes affecting land, culture, and history. In 2022, she was one of five Australian poets selected to participate in the Invisible Walls: poetry as a Doorway to Intercultural Understanding, an initiative run in partnership between the University of South Australia and Sogang University in Seoul. In the same year, she was published in Rabbit and appointed Writer in Residence at the University of Canberra. In 2023, she was published in the special issue of the Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry, Kolkata, India, Authora Australia, and awarded a Varuna First Nations Fellowship. Barrina is a current member of the First Nations Australia Writers Network and a Director of Us Mob Writing.