Alison Flett is originally from Scotland where she published three collections of  poetry and won, or was shortlisted for, many awards including the prestigious Saltire First Book of the Year Award. She frequently performed her work on national television and radio and at festivals in Britain and Europe, including the Edinburgh Book Festival. Since moving to Adelaide in 2010, her poems and short stories have been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Cordite, Island, Southerly and Westerly. She has also been longlisted for the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize and the Bridport Short Story Prize (UK), shortlisted for the Whitmore Press Manuscript Award and the Adelaide Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award and won the 2020 Olga Masters Short Story Prize. She is an arts reviewer for InDaily, commissioning editor for the international journal Transnational Literature and publisher, with Jill Jones, at Little Windows Press. Her latest poetry collection, Where We Are, is available from Cordite Books.