Eloise Grills is an award-winning essayist, comics artist and poet. They recently signed a two-book deal with Brow Books. Their first book-length illustrated essay, big beautiful female theory, is slated for publication in 2020. It is being developed with the generous assistance of a VicArts grant. Their debut comics chapbook, Sexy Female Murderesses, has recently been published by Glom Press. In 2018, they won the Woollahra Digital Literary Prize for Nonfiction, and The Lifted Brow & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Non-fiction. They were a finalist for the mid-year Walkleys. They are a 2019 CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellow, writing critical essays as part of a mentorship with the Sydney Review of Books. They were a 2018 Felix Meyer Scholar and a 2016 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow. Eloise has performed, appeared on panels, and illustrated for many festivals, including Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival (2019), Melbourne Writers Festival (2019), the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (2018), the Stella Schools Program's Girls Write Up Festival (2016, 2018) the Emerging Writers Festival (2016-2018), Queensland Poetry Festival (2018) NYWF (2016-2017) and White Night (2015). From 2018-19, they co-curated Synthetic Heat, a series of non-fiction readings, with Ellena Savage, with the support of the City of Melbourne. Eloise has facilitated comics and zine-making workshops through Arts Access, the Stella Schools program, the Emerging Writers Festival, Queensland Poetry Festival and Ubud Writers and Readers Festival. They work as a creative writing tutor at RMIT, as a facilitating artist with ArtLife at Footscray Community Arts Centre and as a research assistant at the University of Melbourne. They hold a Master's Degree in Creative Writing, Editing and Publishing from the University of Melbourne. They create work at my studio in North Melbourne, as part of the Meat Market's studio program. This is Eloise's first poetry collection.