Dr June Paisa Perkins, a multi-arts creative, born to a Papua New Guinean Indigenous mother and Australian father, combines poetry, blogging, photography, and story to explore: peace, ecology, spirituality, cultural diversity, healing from natural disasters, and empowerment. Recently she guest-edited Diaspora WQ 275 for the Queensland Writing Centre. Her works have been published by Tokens, World Order, The Queensland Art Gallery, Nineteen Months, South of the Sun, and several anthologies including Red Room Poetry’s, In Your Hands. She has published two collections of poetry, Illuminations, 19 poems and one story (2020), and for children and families Magic Fish Dreaming (2016). www.gumbootspearlz.org
