Gaele Sobott

Gaele lives on Dharug land, Western Sydney, Australia. Her publications include the short story collection Colour Me Blue, and literary biography My Longest Round. Gaele has written children’s books for the African market and published essays and short stories in various magazines. Her short stories also appear in anthologies such as Botswana Women Write and Not Quite Right For Us. She has published her poetry in literary journals including Disability Arts Online, Otway Journal, Cordite, Plumwood Mountain, New Flash Fiction Review and The Massachusetts Review, and is regularly featured at literary events in Australia and overseas. Gaele is the recipient of a 2023 Australia Council Fellowship to create poetry animations in translation. In 2020 Gaele was granted a City of Sydney fellowship for award-winning poetry animations. In 2021, she was awarded a Varuna Writers Space Fellowship and was shortlisted for the Queensland Poetry Awards Emerging Older Poets Mentorship. She is the founding director of Outlandish Arts, a disabled-led, not-for-profit arts organisation. Gaele has a PhD in literature from the University of Hull, England.