Dr Michelle Redman-MacLaren, an Anglo-Celtic Australian poet, co-researches with Pacific and Indigenous Australian peoples. Dr Redman-MacLaren is an Associate Professor at James Cook University, Australia. She has published poems in peer-reviewed publications, and performed in community and academic settings. Her ground-breaking work exploring the relationships between health research and poetic inquiry inspired her TEDx talk ‘Can Poetry Make us Healthy?’ and has led to collaborations with poets in Indigenous Australian health networks, the Pacific and Ireland. More about her resarch can be found at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2055-7733. Dr Redman-MacLaren advised on and supported found poetry co-production for the Rising Stories project.