Caterina Mastroianni is an Italian-born Australian poet and educator raised in Port Kembla and Wollongong, on the land of the Wadi Wadi people of the Dharawal nation. She has published poetry in various literary magazines and four Australian anthologies, most recently in Live Encounters Poetry and Writing, Burrow, and Poetry for the Planet: An Anthology of Imagined Futures . She lives in Sydney on the land of the Cadigal and Wangal people of the Eora nation.