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Aloma Davis is an emerging poet and fully emerged English teacher, living in Melbourne, Australia. A lover of words from childhood, her writing is concerned with social justice, beauty and kindness. Birds are a frequent motif in her work.

In 2022, she accidentally became a national finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam. In 2023, her poem 'The Good Socks' featured in the International Human Rights Art Festival in New York. In 2024, she was awarded a Red Room Poetry Fellowship.

Aloma regularly performs her works at Victorian writing festivals and in the vibrant spoken word scene in Melbourne.

Awards not individually indexed on AustLit are listed in the notes below.