CB Mako is a member of West Writers Group, art student of Footscray Community Arts Centre, and winner of the 2016 Grace Marion Wilson Prize (Non-fiction). In 2016, she participated at the Emerging Writers’ Festival (Late Night Lit: Fandom) and Melbourne Writers Festival (Storytelling at The Dock). Her published works have appeared in The Suburban Review, The Lifted Brow, Melbourne City of Literature’s #SummerInTheCityOfLit, and Pencilled-In.