Jake Goetz is a poet and researcher who lives and works on the unceded lands of the Gadigal People (Sydney’s Inner West). He has published three collections of poetry: meditations with passing water (Rabbit, 2018), which was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance; Unplanned Encounters: Poems 2015-2020 (Apothecary Archive, 2023); and most recently, Holocene Pointbreaks (Puncher & Wattmann, 2024). He is currently a Research Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society in Munich.