Laurel-Jane May

Laurel-Jane May is a Central Australian performance poet and educator originally from the Gulf of Carpentaria. After a few years working in Uganda and Darwin as a journalist, Laurie felt the desert calling and packed everything into the car and headed to the centre. Alice Springs has been her home for five years, working as Events Manager and Artistic Director for The Dirty Word and Red Dirt Poetry Festival, President of the Totem Theatre, as well as program coordinator for MusicNT.