Alison J Barton

Alison J Barton is a widely published Wiradjuri poet based on Wadawurrung land. Her work appears in Australian and international literary journals and anthologies, and has been recognised in numerous prizes as well as Best of Australian Poems 2022, 2023 and 2025. She was the inaugural University of Cambridge First Nations Writer-in-Residence in 2023 and has been the recipient of several writing fellowships and international residencies. Her first full-length collection of poetry, Not Telling, was published by Puncher and Wattmann. She is currently writing a verse novel about the Indigenous experience of German missions in Australia and completing her PhD at Cambridge on Australian Indigenous poetry’s response to the archive. Alison is Editor-in-Chief of The Suburban Review.