ALISON GORMAN is a poet, teacher, and former speech pathologist who lives in Sydney. Her poetry has appeared in Cordite, Island, Honest Ulsterman, Meanjin, Mslexia, Popshot Quarterly, Southerly and Southword. She was awarded the Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize in 2016 and a Varuna Residential Fellowship in 2023. Her poems have been shortlisted in the 2024 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, the Bridport Poetry Prize, the Fish Poetry Prize and the Mslexia Poetry Competition. Her pamphlet was highly commended in the 2024 Mslexia Pamphlet Competition, shortlisted in the Cinnamon Press Literature Awards the same year, and was a finalist in the Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition in 2022. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Sydney. When Alison is not writing poetry, she teaches creative writing to children at Inkling Writing Studio, which she founded in 2018.