CB Mako is one of the founding members of the Disabled QBIPOC Collective along with Nayook, Gemma Mahadeo and Pauline Vetuna. Based in Naarm, cubbie is also a contributor to Resilience (Ultimo), Growing up Disabled in Australia (Black Inc) and Collisions: Fictions of the Future (Pantera Press). Winner of Writers Victoria’s Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers’ Competition, shortlisted in Overland’s Fair Australia Prize and the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writers Awards, cubbie’s writings are in Mascara Literary Review, The Suburban Review, Peril Magazine, Kill Your Darlings and Archer.