Aloma Davis

Aloma Davis is an emerging poet and a not-so-emerging English teacher, living in Melbourne. A lover of words from childhood, her writing is concerned with social justice, beauty and kindness. Despite her best efforts, birds frequently fly in and out of her poems.

In 2022, she was a national finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam and was commissioned by Red Room Poetry to write for their anthology, Admissions (2022), with the poem ‘But you don’t look autistic…’ Her poem ‘The Good Socks’ featured in the International Human Rights Art Festival in New York, 2023 and on ABC’s 774 Melbourne radio, where listeners called in to report being ‘completely destroyed’ and ‘bawling their eyes out’. She takes no responsibility for this.

Aloma regularly performs her works at Victorian writing events such as the Clunes Booktown Festival and in the vibrant spoken word scene in Melbourne. She hopes to see you there.