Deborah Marcus is a poet, multidisciplinary artist and educator from unceded Darramuragal land. She is obsessed with truth and trees, potentially synonymously. Her Honours thesis on the interconnection between fractal geometry and poetic language won UNSW’s first University Medal for Creative Writing in 2022, and she went on to publish her first poetry collection An Organ of Chaos in 2023 with Joanne Fedler Media. She has been nominated as an Emerging Voice by Red Room Poetry, and her poem ‘Reduced’ was included in their anthology Admissions in 2022 (Upswell Publishing). Deborah has also performed her poetry at various local arts and culture events, including Sydney Comedy Festival in 2025 at the Enmore Theatre.