Bron Bateman is a poet, academic, and mother of nine. She is a researcher in Crip and Disability Studies at the University of Newcastle and her research interests include Crip and Disability Studies, Queer and Gender Theory, cultural studies, creative writing, Feminisms, and the body. Her first poetry collection, People from bones (with Kelly Pilgrim) was published by Ragged Raven Press (UK) in 2002. Her second collection, Of Memory and Furniture, which was Highly Commended in the Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry in 2021, was published by Fremantle Press in 2020.