The image shows a picture of a woman with light blonde hair cut in a straight bob with bangs. She is looking directly at the camera with a serious expression. One of her hands is resting under her chin. She is wearing a black top and the background is also black, which makes her face and hair stand out prominently. The photo has a professional and dramatic feel to it.

Gaele Sobott

Consultant, Producer, Writer
  • Pronouns: She/her
  • Location: Sydney
  • Genres: Poetry, short stories, non-fiction
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Biography

Gaele Sobott 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, Rabbit, The Massachusetts Review and The Suburban Review. Gaele is regularly featured at literary events in Australia and overseas.

In 2020 Gaele was granted a City of Sydney fellowship for her 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. Gaele is the recipient of the prestigious 2023 Australia Council Fellowship for video animation, poetry and translation. 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.

Gaele is currently working on her debut poetry collection.

Watch Gaele’s animated poems

https://www.gaelesobott.com/animatedpoems

Read Gaele’s work

https://www.gaelesobott.com/writing