Alice Bishop grew up on Wurundjeri Country, in Christmas Hills, Victoria, Australia.

She was named 2020 Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelist for A Constant Hum, now out via Text Publishing.

A Constant Hum was also shortlisted for the 2019 Prize for New Australian Fiction and the 2020 University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Prize for Short Fiction. A Constant Hum is now studied in a number of high schools across Australia and has been recognised internationally.

A Constant Hum is based on Bishop's own loss of a home to Black Saturday, and the resulting hardships people, especially women, face during the aftermath of climate-caused bushfire.

In 2018 A Constant Hum was shortlisted in the Penguin Random House Literary Prize. Bishop's work has also appeared in The Saturday Paper, Meanjin, Southerly, Australian Book Review, Griffith REVIEW, Overland, The Suburban Review, Visible Ink, Seizure, Voiceworks, and the human rights publication Right Now. 

Bishop works in communications/marketing and has completed a Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing at the University of Melbourne. She is also the recipient of a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship.

Her essay, 'Coppering', was shortlisted in the 2017 Horne Prize—held by both The Saturday Paper and Aesop. 

Bishop is now working on her first novel.

Photo by Victoria Hannan