Poet and author of prose.
In 2006, Dael Allison spent eight months in Nias, Indonesia writing and volunteering with the UN and other aid agencies to assist in the reconstruction following the earthquakes. In 2010 - 2011, she completed a Masters of Creative Arts at the University of Technology Sydney, with a focus on traveller and modernist artist Ian Fairweather. Her first chapbook was published in 2010, her second in 2013. A volume of poetry arising from her Masters work, Fairweather's Raft, was published in 2012.
The winner of the inaugural Varuna LitLink/NRWC Award for an Unpublished Novel (in 2009), she has also won the Northern Territory Literary Award (for an essay, 2008) and the Wildcare International Essay Prize (2005). She has also won numerous poetry prizes, including the Henry Kendall Poetry Award (2012). In 2016, she won the regional Joanne Burns Award.
Allison has taught Humanities and Women's Studies at Taree TAFE (Technical And Further Education) and has lived in Warrawillah, New South Wales. In addition to her Masters in Creative Arts, she was undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle in 2017.
