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Gender: Female
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1 Books Roundup : Late Bloomer, Muddy People, Dark as Last Night, When Things are Alive They Hum C.B. Mako , Sara Saleh , Thabani Tshuma , Lucinda Bain , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , August 2021;
— Review of Late Bloomer : How An Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life Clem Bastow , 2021 single work autobiography ; Muddy People Sara El Sayed , 2021 single work autobiography ; Dark As Last Night Tony Birch , 2021 selected work short story ; When Things Are Alive They Hum Hannah Bent , 2021 single work novel
1 West of the Sun and Sea C.B. Mako , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Collisions : Fictions of the Future : An Anthology of Australian Writers of Colour 2020; (p. 112-116)
1 Hiding within the Diaspora with a Sharky Pen Name C.B. Mako , 2019 single work prose
— Appears in: Verity La , May 2019;
1 Pray Cook Tweet C.B. Mako , 2017 single work essay autobiography
— Appears in: Pencilled In , no. 1 2017; (p. 20-22) 'In the gilded sacristy of the Spanish-colonial cathedral, I stood frozen near the doorway. I griped my seven-year-old sister's hand, making sure she wouldn't bolt away into the foreboding, ancient church. Located inside the walls pf Intramuros, this was the most immense church we had ever seen, and we could easily get lost inside.' (Introduction)
1 The Colour of Care C.B. Mako , 2017 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , April no. 20 2017;

CB Mako relates her experiences as a carer of colour who also has depression. She discusses her and her husband's strained relationship with their migrant community, and questions the tendency of more traditional disability coverage to avoid the narratives of people of colour.
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