Maki Morita is a writer and performance-maker of Japanese descent on unceded Wurundjeri country. Recent projects include dance piece (live art, Labour Lexica exhibition, Linden New Art, 2022) and Trash Pop Butterflies, Dance Dance Paradise (fortyfivedownstairs 2022, Theatre Works 2023). She is a 2022 Wheeler Centre Playwright Hot Desk Fellow, and has appeared in events for Emerging Writers’ Festival, National Young Writers’ Festival, and The Wheeler Centre. Their writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Cordite, Mascara Literary Review, More Than Melanin, Portside Review & more.