Alisha Brown

Alisha Brown is a poet living on unceded Gadigal Country. Her unpublished manuscript, A Bird is a Small God, was shortlisted for the 2026 Dorothy Hewett Award. She won the 2025 Finding Beauty Poetry Prize and the 2022 Joyce Parkes Women’s Writing Prize, placed second in the 2021 Woorilla Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2026 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize. She has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and was a finalist in the Palette Poetry 2025 Love & Eros Prize. Her work is published or forthcoming in Best of Australian Poems, Palette Poetry, Westerly, Griffith Review, Island, Cordite, and Meanjin, among others.