Sharlene Allsopp was born on 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 Queensland's Ford Memorial Poet of the Year in 2021. Her debut novel The Great Undoing, released with Ultimo Press, won the Queensland Literary Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2024. Sharlene lives in Meanjin/Brisbane with her family and her beloved doggo, Morty. She holds a Master's in Creative Writing and teaches as a casual academic at the University of Queensland.
