WHOMST?

Celeste is an Australian Indigenous artist and speculative fiction writer. She is a queer, disabled, anarchist and her work focuses on environmentalist, anti-colonialist, and feminist themes.

Celeste enjoys gaming, drawing, gardening, and going on bushwalks. Her favourite video games include Skyrim, Assassin's Creed, Hollow Knight, Spyro, and the Witcher series.

She feels most at home when immersed in nature and spending time on Country. She grew up on Gubbi Gubbi Country by the sea, and now lives on Gangulu Country in Central Queensland with her wife and her tabby cat Ursula.

A zoomed-in photograph of Ursula the brown tabby cat. She has minimal white markings on har paws and face, and is curled up sleeping on her side with one of her paws resting over her face. She is laying on a green towel draped over an office chair.

Fun fact: Most know her by her online moniker "Prokyon" (pro-kee-on). It is derived from Procyon, the brightest star in the Canis Minor constellation, as well as Procyonidae, the taxonomic family name of raccoons.

WRITING PROJECTS

  • Steel the Wolf: A transgender blacksmith in a medieval fantasy setting, afflicted with a werewolf curse, teams up with a witch to get revenge on those who wronged them.

  • Honey Dogs: An Australian gothic story about Charlee, a queer Aboriginal postal courier and apiarist, set in a post-apocalyptic rural Queensland.

OTHER WORKS IN THE PIPELINE:

  • Hollowrend: A sci-fi fantasy about a planet full of floating rocks, swamp elves, and giant weevils. Oh, and the cave vampires. Can't forget the cave vampires.

  • Untitled: A fantasy cyberpunk setting where a supernatural pest controller notices that there's something... off about his apprentice. They're sick every full moon, they're depressed, and their apartment is a rat's nest, sans-rats! Main cast: The Boss, The Apprentice, The Receptionist, and The Pizza Guy.

  • Untitled: After his family perishes in a tragic accident, Bryan, the heir to the family farm, tries to run from his problems. On a broken leg, he won't get very far without his cat, his van, and his new travelling companion Naomi.

  • On the Way to Lamington: Uni students in Sydney gang together to survive a pandemic with a little more bite. My attempt at exploring an anti-fascist, anti-ableist zombie apocalypse story.

  • Untitled: A fantasy about a suburban mother struggling to manage her work-life-hero balance after acquiring magical powers and getting accosted by wizards to fulfill a "chosen one" quest.