Shastra Deo
#About
Shastra Deo was born in Fiji, raised in Melbourne, and lives in Brisbane. She is currently completing her PhD in Creative Writing at The University of Queensland; her project is focused on nuclear waste burial, languages of warning, and the video game Final Fantasy XV.
Shastra's work deals with the intersection of trauma, memory, and selfhood, with a particular focus on corporeality, embodiment, and strange species of fish.
Her first book, The Agonist, won the 2016 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and was published by UQP in 2017.
