Kaya Ortiz is a queer Filipino poet of in/articulate identities and record-keeper of ancient histories. They are obsessed with the fluidity of borders, memory and time, and their writing has appeared in Cordite, Westerly, and Australian Poetry Journal, among others. Kaya lives and writes on unceded Whadjuk Noongar country, where their name means ‘hello’ in the Noongar language.
