Shey Marque lives and writes on the lands of the Whadjuk-Yued Noongar people in Boorloo (Perth). Her poetry collection, The Hum Hearers (UWA Publishing 2025), is currently shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize 2026. In 2025 it won the Wesley Michel Wright Prize and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Award in 2023.