Alison Gorman

Alison Gorman is a poet who lives in Sydney. Her debut collection, A Woman Talks to Her Tongue was published by 5 Islands Press in June 2025. She was awarded a Varuna Residential Fellowship in 2023. Her poems have been shortlisted in the 2025 Robert Gray poetry competition, the 2024 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, the Bridport Poetry Prize and the Mslexia Poetry Competition. 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.