Sharleigh Crittenden is a Wiradjuri writer and mother living on Wangal Nura. She gravitates towards flash and fragmentary narrative forms and her writing often explores themes of complex grief, motherhood and hope as resistance. You can find her poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction in publications such as Island, The Suburban Review, Portside Review, Thread Lit Mag and others, as well as in Crip Stories: An anthology of disabled writers (NewSouth Publishing/Mascara Literary Review, 2026). In 2024, she was shortlisted for the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers. Sharleigh’s literary fiction novella, Children of Crows, is forthcoming with Magabala Books in May 2027.