Maxine Beneba Clarke

Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent, whose work includes fiction, non-fiction, plays and poetry. She is the author of over fourteen books for children and adults, notably a short story collection entitled ''Foreign Soil'' (2014), and her 2016 memoir ''The Hate Race'', which she adapted for a stage production debuting in February 2024. Her poetry collections include ''Carrying the World'' (2016), ''How Decent Folk Behave'' (2021), and ''It's the Sound of the Thing: 100 New Poems for Young People'' (2023). In 2023, Clarke was appointed the inaugural Peter Steele Poet in Residence at the University of Melbourne. Provided by Wikipedia