Roz Bellamy is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in Living and Loving in Diversity (Wakefield Press), Going Postal: More Than ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ (Brow Books) and Growing Up Queer in Australia (Black Inc.) Their essays and articles have been published in The Big Issue, Going Down Swinging, the Guardian, Huffington Post, Junkee, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, SBS, Seizure and the Sydney Morning Herald. Their work was shortlisted for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize in 2014 and they won the Stonnington Prize for Poetry in 2016. Roz has a Bachelor of Communications in Creative Writing (Honours) from the University of Technology, Sydney and a Master of Teaching (Secondary) from Monash University, and in 2020 was a PhD candidate at La Trobe University. Roz's memoir about gender diversity, Jewish identity and mental illness was published in 2023.