Alison Gorman

Alison Gorman is a poet, teacher, and former speech pathologist who lives in Sydney. Her poetry has appeared in Cordite, Island, The Honest Ulsterman, Meanjin, Mslexia, Popshot Quarterly, Southerly and is forthcoming in Southword. She was awarded the Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize in 2016 and a Varuna Residential Fellowship in 2023. Her work was shortlisted in the Gwen Harwood Poetry prize and the Cinnamon Press literary awards in 2024, the Bridport Poetry Prize and the Fish Poetry Prize in 2023 as well as the Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition and the Mslexia Poetry 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.