Mama Alto as writer & author
As well as being a jazz singer, cabaret artiste and gender transcendent diva, Mama Alto is also a writer & author - including as a recipient of a Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas fellowship, and having been published in print and online including with the National Gallery of Victoria, Archer Magazine and Hachette Books and in news and street press media. As a playwright she has also been recognised with works in development including at Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC Cybec Electric 2019) and Antipodes Theatre Company.
- April 2021 Gender Euphoria: Reflections on trans friendships & a creative journey, Archer Magazine print edition and online https://archermagazine.com.au/2022/05/gender-euphoria-trans-friendships-creative/
- June 2020, “In Isolation with Mama Alto” - Dining In Place essay https://dininginplace.com/essay/in-isolation-with-mama-alto/
- March 2020, “The arts sector will be hard hit by COVID-19. We need to act now to save it” TimeOut magazine https://www.timeout.com/sydney/news/the-arts-sector-will-be-hard-hit-by-covid-19-we-need-to-act-now-to-save-it-032120
- August 2019, “An open letter to the trans and gender diverse community" Archer Magazine (online) http://archermagazine.com.au/2019/08/an-open-letter-to-the-trans-and-gender-diverse-community-from-mama-alto/
- August 2019, “Imbibing Perfume” in “Why We Love Love” Melbourne Writers Festival feature, The Age (online & in print) https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/why-we-love-love-20190826-p52kt9.html
- June 2019 Fierce, Femme & Fabulous in Soundescapes, Melbourne Recital Centre (online & in print) https://soundescapes.melbournerecital.com.au/explore/fierce-femme-fabulous-mama-alto-on-gender-transcendence-the-curiosities-of-cabaret
- September 2018, “Multiple Margins: Queer people of colour in the arts” in Living & Loving in Diversity, Wakefield Press, edited by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli for the Australian Gay & Lesbian Multicultural Council https://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product.php?productid=1473
- August 2018, “Gen(d)erations” in Queerstories: Reflections on lives well lived from some of Australia's finest LGBTQIA+ writers, Hachette Australia, edited by Maeve Marsden https://www.hachette.com.au/maeve-marsden/queerstories-reflections-on-lives-well-lived-from-some-of-australias-finest-lgbtqia-writers
- August 2018 “Visibility" in Querelle Magazine 2018 (print)
- November 2017, "Self-care and love at a tender time" Archer Magazine (online) http://archermagazine.com.au/2017/11/marriage-equality-self-care-queer-love/
- September 2017, "Taylor Mac - Queer is not just an identity, it’s a verb” in TheMusic (online & in print) https://themusic.com.au/features/taylor-mac-melbourne-festival-mama-alto/OOErKi0sLy4/27-09-17/