Maxine Beneba Clarke
Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian author of Afro-Caribbean descent. She is the author of the ABIA-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil, memoir The Hate Race and many picture books for children, including The Patchwork Bike, Fashionista, and When We Say Black Lives Matter.
Maxine’s poetry collections include Carrying the World; How Decent Folk Behave; It’s the Sound of the Thing: 100 new poems for young people; Stuff I'm Not Sorry For: 99 new poems for young people, and Beautiful Changelings. She is the inaugural Poet in Residence at The University of Melbourne.