Hi, I’m Alisha!
I’m a writer and folk musician living on unceded Garigal land in Australia. My work explores the relationship between the body, deep ecology, and magic. I’m interested in myth, memory, identity, and the interconnectedness of human and more-than-human worlds.
My poetry has been published in literary journals including Westerly, The Griffith Review, Cordite, Meanjin, and The Australian Poetry Anthology. I was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, won the 2022 Joyce Parkes Women’s Writing Prize, placed second in the 2021 Woorilla Poetry Prize, and was Highly Commended for the 2024 and 2025 South Coast Writers Centre Poetry Awards. Recently, I was also shortlisted for the 2025 Finding Beauty Poetry Prize.
I work as Submissions Manager for The Suburban Review and freelance as a copywriter, editor, designer, and multimedia creative. I’m an avid traveller, though I feel most at home amongst the tea trees and whip birds of Yuin Country on the NSW far south coast, as well as the river red gums and dry scrub of Kamilaroi land, where I was born, and to which I return in my dreams.