Mattie-Martha Sempert is a practicing acupuncturist and creative writer and has a creative practice-led PhD from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Her work has appeared in New Writing, Writing in Practice, Axon: Creative Exploration, The Lantern, Unlikely, and Immediation. Mattie is loosely planted in the bushland hills outside of Melbourne, where she attempts to make a daily habit living in William James’s World of Pure Experience.