Van Badham is an internationally award-winning writer and theatremaker. As a journalist, she’s written for The New York Times, The Telegraph (UK) and The Age, and she maintains a weekly column for The Guardian. Van appears regularly on television and radio as a commentator, critic and activist. Widely published as an essayist and poet, she’s appeared in anthologies for Hardie Grant, Black Inc, MUP and QUP, and wrote the novel Burnt Snow for Pan Macmillan. Her first book with Hardie Grant Books, QAnon and On, was published in 2021 and nominated for a Walkley.