Sean West (he/they) is an Autistic poet, support worker, and workshop facilitator based in Meanjin. Their debut chapbook is Gutless Wonder (Queensland Poetry, 2023). In 2025, they won a Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. In 2024, Sean was runner-up in the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. Sean is the founding editor of Blue Bottle Journal and moonlights as Mariah for Ruckus Slam Brisbane.
Follow them @glitter_bish or @bluebottlejournal