Quinn Eades is a Senior Lecturer in Gender, Sexuality & Diversity Studies,[1] best known for both academic work and poetry on queer theory and experience.

He is particularly known for integrating his trans-masculine perspective into both academic and personal writing.

[4] He did his PhD from 2011 to 2015 in English and gender studies under Sue Martin at La Trobe University,[4][5] also publishing a collection of poems as a companion volume.

[2] During his PhD, he founded the interdisciplinary gender, sexuality and diversity academic journal: Writing from Below in 2012,[6] and is currently the co-managing editor.

[1] It was also in 2015 that he began transitioning to be a non-binary trans masculine person at the age of 41, whilst completing a PhD thesis and having recently given birth to his youngest child.