The 2024 LIMINAL x Hyphenated Projects Writing Fellow

Congratulations to Shastra Deo, our 2024 Writing Fellow!

Shastra Deo was born in Fiji, raised in Melbourne, and lives in Brisbane. Her first book, The Agonist (UQP 2017), won the 2016 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and the 2018 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Her second book, The Exclusion Zone (UQP 2023), is a love letter to all gamers.

Shastra will use the fellowship and residency at the Hyphenated Projects house to build on the backbone of her next poetry collection, Anatomy of the Sheep. Writing a suite of poems that diffracts sapphics in and around pop culture media through the lens of asexuality, a-spec desire, and a-spec time, Shastra seeks to explore the debts we bear to our entangled relations in this extended now and the yet to be.