Lay is a young genderfluid storyteller of the Gumbaynggirr and Gunggandji nations and South Sea Islander heritage based on Dunghutti Country. They are the recipient for the black&write! Fellowship with the State Library of Queensland for their LGBTQIA+ YA novel titled WEAVING US TOGETHER which hit the shelves August 2025.
They were also the Emerging Producer for the 2024 Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival and current Blak & Bright Literary Development Co-Ordinator. Lay is published in ‘NANGAMAY dream MANA gather DJURALI grow – First Nations Australia LGBTQIA+ Poetry collection’ edited by Alison Whittaker & Steven Lindsay Ross, Cordite Poetry Review ‘Tell It Like You Mean It’, and Soft Stir issue 3.
