Sharlene Allsopp was born and raised on Bundjalung country. She has galivanted all the way to Kathmandu only to miss out on seeing the Himalayas, has swum with hundreds of stingrays off Grand Cayman, and dreams of capturing that elusive perfect sentence—preferably liquored up in a Champagne field in France. Sharlene was published in the 2019 Jacaranda journal, and was shortlisted for a 2019 Overland Writers’ Residency. She co-founded a charity for domestic violence survivors.