Alison Thompson is an Australian poet and short story writer who lives on the South Coast of NSW and is a founding member of the Kitchen Table Poets. Her poems have been published in several Australian journals and her chapbook, ‘Slow Skipping‘, was published in 2008 by PressPress. She is currently working on a full-length poetry collection and her first collection of short stories. Examples of her work may be found at https://alisonthompsonpoetry.wordpress.com/