Hi, I’m Alisha!

I’m a writer, arts worker, 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 appeared in literary journals including Best of Australian Poems, Westerly, Palette Poetry, Griffith Review, Cordite, Meanjin, Island, and The Australian Poetry Anthology.

My unpublished poetry manuscript, ‘A Bird is a Small God’, was shortlisted for the 2026 Dorothy Hewett Award. I 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. I was a finalist in the Palette Poetry 2025 Love & Eros Prize, and was Highly Commended for both the 2024 and 2025 South Coast Writers Centre Poetry Awards. I have also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

I work for Red Room Poetry as Digital Support Officer. 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.