Maxine Beneba Clarke

Maxine Beneba Clarke is an award-winning Australian writer and slam poet champion of Afro-Caribbean descent. She is the author of The Patchwork Bike, illustrated by Van Thanh Rudd, which received a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the author-illustrator of the critically acclaimed When We Say Black Lives Matter. Maxine Beneba Clarke's poetry and short fiction have won several prizes, including an Australian Independent Bookseller Indie Book Award and a Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry. She lives in Australia.