Rebecca Hawkes is a sheep'n'beef farm-girl turned painter-poet. She has just unleashed her debut poetry collection, Meat Lovers, following her chapbook Softcore coldsores which was included in AUP New Poets 5 in 2019. She is a co-editor for local journal Sweet Mammalian and No Other Place To Stand, an anthology of climate poetry forthcoming in 2022 from AUP.

Photo credit: Ebony Lamb Photography