Dael Allison writes poetry, fiction and essays, and works as an editor. She has won numerous awards for writing, including the International Wildcare Prize for Environmental Writing, a Varuna Award for an unpublished novel, three writing residencies at Varuna, and a Wildcare residency on Maria Island, Tasmania.
In 2024, Dael was awarded a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Newcastle. Fig, her short story cycle based in the Hunter Valley, will be published by Puncher & Wattmann in 2026.
Dael’s Masters in Creative Writing, from the University of Technology, Sydney, explored in poetry the life and work of Australia’s first modernist artist, Ian Fairweather. Poems from her book, Fairweather’s Raft (Walleah Press, 2012), featured in an ABC Poetica soundscape in 2014.
Praise for Fairweather’s Raft:
“Allison’s writing is sensitive, piercing and starkly prismatic”: Judith Beveridge
“Allison applies a layered texture to visual descriptions, which are material and dramatic in their evocations”: Michelle Cahill
