Past & Parallel Lives
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Past & Parallel Lives
By (Author) Kaya Ortiz
UWA Publishing
UWA Publishing
1st March 2025
Australia
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
Physical Properties
Paperback
90
Width 140mm, Height 208mm
Description
**Winner of the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award**
Past & Parallel Lives is an autobiographical collection exploring migration trauma, religious upbringing, and the strange experience of becoming and belonging yet always being alien, queer, displaced, other. Kaya Ortiz's award-winning debut shines with authenticity this is a courageous departure from a past life, towards a queer future and a poetic return to self.
'A gentle and powerful urge to believe in a world where becoming is just as beautiful as arriving.' Madison Godfrey
Author Bio
Kaya Ortiz is a queer Filipino poet of in/articulate identities and record-keeper of ancient histories. Kaya hails from the southern islands of Mindanao and Lutruwita/Tasmania. Their writing has appeared in Portside Review, Westerly, Australian Poetry Journal, Best of Australian Poems 2021 and After Australia (Affirm Press 2020). Kaya lives and writes on unceded Whadjuk Noongar Country, where their name means 'hello' in the Noongar language.
