Sean West is a Meanjin-based poet, disability support worker, and workshop facilitator. He was runner-up for the SCWC 2022 Poetry Award, received an Arts Queensland Individuals Fund grant in 2021, and was shortlisted for the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize in 2021, 2020 and 2019. He has led workshops for Australian Poetry Slam, Brotherhood of the Wordless, LOUD, and Upbeat Arts/School of Hard Knocks. He is the founding editor of Blue Bottle Journal and works for Ruckus Slam Brisbane.
