Brendon IJ McLeod listens to Bob Dylan in the shower every morning. Yesterday he hallucinated that a woman he had just met said: I love you, Brendon. He has been published in Overland and Rabbit Poetry. He was shortlisted for the 2023 Judith Wright Poetry Prize. He was awarded a fellowship from The Writers' Space to Varuna, The National Writers' House. He is studying a PhD in English and Writing at The University of Sydney. He would love to break into theatre.