Claire G Coleman is a Noongar woman whose family have belonged to the south coast of Western Australia since long before history started being recorded. She writes fiction, essays, poetry and art, writing while either living in Naarm (Melbourne) or on the road. She is the author of Enclave (2022), Lies, Damned Lies: A personal investigation into the impacts of colonisation (2021), The Old Lie (2019) and Terra Nullius (2017). Born in Perth, away from her ancestral country she has lived most of her life in Victoria and most of that in and around Melbourne. She is a founding collaborator at Creative Climate.