A book like this should be read by everyone who was mothered/is mothered/does mothering. By every body that has held another body within it. Or hopes to.”

Dr Natalie Kon-yu, Victoria University

Eleanor is the author of Gravidity and Parity from Vagabond Press.

Winner of the Small Press Network Book of the Year 2022

Highly Commended in the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards

Highly Commended in the ASAL Mary Gilmore Award 2022

Her chapbook, A Leaving (2018), is also available from Vagabond Press, while her full-length live album, One Night Wonders, is available through Going Down Swinging. 

Publications and recordings of her work are widely available, including in Overland Journal, Arc Poetry Magazine, Australian Poetry Journal, Going Down Swinging, Peril Magazine, Scum Magazine and the Cordite Poetry Review, FBI’s “All the Best”, RRR’s “Aural Text”, 3CR’s “Spoken Word”, and ABC Radio National’s “Night Air”.

Her work has been anthologised in Solid Air: Australian and New Zealand Poetry (UQP: 2019); #MeToo: Stories from the Australian Movement (PanMacMillan: 2019); What We Carry: Poetry on Childbearing (Recent Work Press: 2021); and Borderless: A Transnational Anthology of Feminist Poetry (Recent Work Press: 2021).

Her radio play, Agent Ion, was featured on Radiotonic for ABC Radio National, and her short fiction, The Transfer, appeared in Review of Australian Fiction. In 2014-2015, she was Artist in Residence at La Boite Theatre in Brisbane.

Her non-fiction appears in publications such as The Relationship is the Project: Working with Communities (Brow Books: 2020); Dumbo Feather, Meanjin and Women’s Agenda.

A proud Filipino Australian, Eleanor is committed to developing and hosting events and experiences that showcase the diversity of both poetry and its creators. She produces the Melbourne Poetry Map, is Chair of Peril Magazine and an Advisory Board Member for Diasporas, Multicultural Arts Victoria. She has worked with a multitude of community arts festivals and projects as a governance leader, advisor, advocate and programmer, including roles as Editor in Chief of Peril Magazine; Board Member and Program Adviser for the Queensland Poetry Festival; Curator for Brisbane Emerging Arts Festival; Vice-Chair and Diversity Advisory committee for The Stella Prize; and Reference Group Member and Organisational Mentor for Diversity Arts Australia, Fair Play Project.

Eleanor loves creating and sharing stories of community, identity and place and was a long-time host of At the Local on 4zzz fm, profiling local arts, events and community organisations that often pass under the radar of mainstream broadcasting with co-host, and all-round dreamboat, Domenico Natoli. From time to time, she moonlights on 3Way fm’s Absolute Blues with Lonesome George.