Carlie Daley Nekrasov lives in Northern NSW where she steals time to create poems in between work and mothering. She has had pieces published in The Long Paddock, Southerly, Gargouille, Capsule, Frostwriting, and the Australian Poetry Anthology. She was the winner of the City of Stonnington Literary Festival – Poetry Open Age – Non-Stonnington prize in 2018, and published her first chapbook with Dancing Girl Press in 2019.