Niki Tulk is an ex-pat Australian, and experimental theatre-maker, improviser, writer, poet, and author of Performing the Wound: Practicing a Feminist Theatre of Becoming (Routledge, 2022). Her research and practice explores a feminist, embodied and ethical poetics around performance of trauma experience. Niki’s work has appeared both nationally and internationally, in regional theatres, conferences, galleries, festivals and Off Off Broadway. She has published poetry, fiction, and criticism in Emergency Index, The Saranac Review, The Sheepshead Review, The Feminist Wire, The Journal of Language and Literacy Education, The West Trade Review, Southerly and Antipodes, among others. Her novella Before Rain was a finalist for the 2017 international Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize. Niki holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies; and another PhD in Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance. She has a MEd in Children’s Literature, and an MFA from The New School. She is also a certified teacher of Action Theater, Ruth Zaporah’s surreal and ever-wondrous form of improvisation. Niki’s most recent installation and performance work explores violence against women through the material practice of writing and book-making, focusing on the macabre, 19thcentury practice of binding texts in female, human skin. After living all over the US, she currently lives with her family and rescue dog in the White Mountains, New Hampshire.