Rachel Rayner is a science communicator specialising in physics, poetry and performance. She lives on unceded Gadigal Country in NSW, and works in astronomy communications at CSIRO. Her writing has been published in Consilience, Cosmos magazine, Visual Verse, Axon, and she presents at events around the world on merging science and art. Rachel wrote and produced her touring show, A Flying Photon, which won the 2022 Adelaide Fringe Festival’s Science at the Fringe award. The show combines poetry, physics, comedy and physical theatre. It was described as ‘humorous and factual with moments of genuine wonder’ by AUReview.