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Lit Crawl: Portrait of an Artist — Writers at the Canvas

Rose Lu is a writer from Pōneke currently based in Naarm. She gained her Masters of Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters in 2018 and was awarded the Modern Letters Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Her first essay collection All Who Live on Islands was published to critical acclaim in 2019. She has also been published in The Guardian, Metro and Pantograph Punch. She was the Writer in Residence at Randall Cottage in 2022. Her undergraduate degree was in Mechatronics Engineering and she has worked as a software developer since 2012.

Elizabeth Flux is the Arts Editor for The Age newspaper in Melbourne. For the past decade she has been covering arts, culture, health and politics stories for publications across Australia, and was previously editor-at-large for the UNESCO Melbourne City of Literature Office. As a writer her short stories and nonfiction have been widely published.

Nathan Joe 周润豪 is a Chinese-Kiwi playwright and performance poet based in Tāmaki Makaurau. He was the recipient of the 2021 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award and the 2020 National Poetry Slam Champion. His best known work Scenes from a Yellow Peril premiered at the ASB Waterfront Theatre in 2022 and recently had its Australian premiere at Queensland Theatre as part of DOOR 3. He is also the curator behind DIRTY PASSPORTS, a BIPOC spoken word lineup show. His latest work, A Short History of Asian New Zealand Theatre, blends cultural criticism, personal essay and spin class in live performance.