Maria van Neerven is a Mununjali Yugambeh woman from south-east Queensland. She is a retired library technician who loves reading and writing poetry. Her first published story was in the journal The Lifted Brow: Blak Brow (2018) and she has also published poetry in In Our Hands, (2022) a collection of poetry from Elders and knowledge keepers. Maria was one of the four inaugural Mascara Varuna Writers’ and Editors’ Residency winners for her poetry, 2023. She has performed her work on stages across Alice Springs and Brisbane and is working on her first collection.
