Erin McFadyen is a critic, poet, and educator living on unceded Gadigal land. Her interests include weird affects, marxist-feminism, ecopoetics and lyric studies. She’s currently Principal Writer at Artist Profile, and her work can also be found in Overland, Sudo Journal, The Mascara Review, Art & Australia, The Cambridge Review of Books, and elsewhere. She runs a creative non-fiction reading group, and speaks about animals in contemporary lyric poetry for a forthcoming episode of the Australasian Post-Humanities podcast.