Sharlene Allsopp was born on unceded Bundjalung Country into the Olive mob. She has been published widely, including in Griffith Review, Portside Review, and Aniko Press. She was the University of QLD’s Ford Memorial Poet of the Year in 2021. Her debut novel The Great Undoing, released with Ultimo Press, won the QLD Literary Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2024. She is currently teaching and studying for her Masters in Creative Writing at UQ. Sharlene lives in Meanjin/Brisbane with her family and her beloved doggo—Morty.