An image taken of Alisha from above. She has wavy, dark brown hair and blue eyes. She is gazing right into the camera with a playful smile. She wears a dark grey knitted sweater and blue jeans. There is grass in the background.

Hi, I’m Alisha!

I’m a writer, editor, and folk musician living on unceded Gadigal land in Australia. My work explores the relationship between the body, deep ecology, and magic. I’m interested in myth, memory, and the interconnectedness of human and more-than-human worlds.

My poetry has been published in literary journals including Best of Australian Poems, Westerly, Griffith Review, Cordite, Meanjin, Island, and The Australian Poetry Anthology.

Recently, I was shortlisted for the 2026 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize. I won the 2025 Finding Beauty Poetry Prize and the 2022 Joyce Parkes Women’s Writing Prize, and was runner-up in the 2021 Woorilla Poetry Prize. I have also been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize, and was Highly Commended for both the 2024 and 2025 South Coast Writers Centre Poetry Awards.

I work as Submissions Manager at The Suburban Review and Digital Support Officer at Red Room Poetry. I also freelance as a copywriter, editor, 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 dry scrub of Kamilaroi land, where I was born, and to which I return in my dreams.