Carlie Daley lives in Lismore where she stakes time to write alongside work and solo parenting. She has had pieces published in Cordite Poetry Review, The Long Paddock, Southerly, Gargouille, Capsule, Frostwriting, northerly, and the Australian Poetry Anthology. She was the winner of the City of Stonnington Literary Festival—Poetry Open Age—Non Stonnington prize in 2018 and published her first chapbook, Blood & Bone, with Dancing Girl Press in 2019. Her second chapbook, Alluvium, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2023, exploring the aftermath of a divorce and one of the most devastating floods in modern Australian history. Her latest chapbook, From the Bowels of Molluscs, an ode to her female bloodlines, was published in 2026 by Rockwood Press.
Blood&Bone