Anita Solak is a poet, editor and electronic literature artist living on unceded Wurundjeri land.
She plays with the failures of language in her multilingual work. Her essays and poems can be
found in Australian Multilingual Writing Project, Cordite, Going Down Swinging, Runway Journal and The
Suburban Review, among others. She was shortlisted for the 2023 Judith Wright Poetry Prize has
been a poetry editor at Voiceworks, and a 2023 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow. Her practice is
informed by her love of details, research holes, collective memory, and collaborative learning and
care.

Through poetry, I play with failures of language—I’m always looking for new ways to visualise
struggles to communicate and connect, as language is never stagnant. In creating electronic
literature, I’ve found endless possibilities to make the challenges of the immigrant experience,
global feminism, and late-stage capitalism interactive. When performing poetry, I experiment
with live interaction, creating space for collaborative performances between communities and
artists. I’m inspired by the journeys my family and others have made in migration, the existence
of poets, their words, and the way noticing small things in this world can keep you curious and
alive.