Tais Rose Wae

Tais Rose Wae is a widely published and award-winning poet and artist based on Bundjalung Country. Her work explores the interconnections and imprints of lineage, motherhood and her Aboriginal ancestry and has featured at the Biennale of Sydney, Powerhouse Museum, and Tweed Regional Gallery. Her collection, Riverbed Sky Songs (Vagabond Press), won the 2024 Kenneth Slessor NSW Premier’s Literary Award and was shortlisted for the ASAL Mary Gilmore Award. She was runner-up for the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize and Nakata Brophy Prize, shortlisted for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and long-listed for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize.