Alicia Sometimes is an Australian writer, poet and broadcaster. Her poetry book, Stellar Atmospheres is out now via Cordite Books. She is passionate about art-science projects.

Her 2019 TedxUQ talk was called: Honouring your wonder: observing the world through art and science. In 2020 she won the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize. In 2021 she was a City of Melbourne Boyd Garret recipient and completed a virtual residency with the Manchester City of Literature. In 2023 she was the recipient of the ANAT Synapse Residency working alongside Prof Tamara Davis and team at the University of Queensland. In 2023 she co-created ‘In This Room. Everywhere’ as part of Science Gallery Melbourne’s Dark Matters exhibition. In 2024 she was shortlisted for the Blake Poetry Prize.

Alicia was a regular guest on 774, Radio National and is one of the The Outer Sanctum Podcast team (now on hiatus). She was on 3RRR’s Aural Text for fourteen years and was one of the 3RRR’s Breakfasters team in 2015.

Alicia was also editor of the national literary journal Going Down Swinging for seven years She has appeared in ABC TV's Sunday Arts and ABC News Breakfast. Her poems have been in Best Australian Poems, Best Australian Science Writing, Meanjin, Overland, Southerly, Westerly, The Age, Griffith Review etc. Her previous two poetry collections are kissing the curve and Soundtrack.

She has performed her spoken word at many venues, festivals and events around the world including World Science Festival Brisbane, Quantum Words Festival (Perth and NSW), Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (Indonesia), Melbourne Festival, Melbourne Writers Festival, Auckland Readers and Writers Festival, Queensland Poetry Festival, Story of Light Festival (India), Next Wave Festival, National Young Writers Festival, Emerging Writers Festival, ANZ Writers Festival (UK), Bloomsbury Festival (UK) and many more. She was a 2014 Fellow at the State Library of Victoria. She was also writer and director of the science-poetry show, Elemental which toured in 2015 and 2016. Alicia is the director of the science/art show Particle/Wave that has featured at the Melbourne Festival 2018, National Science Week 2019 and the World Science Festival Brisbane. It was also part of New Scientist Live (UK, 2019).

Alicia is one of the Science Gallery Melbourne’s Leonardos (The Leonardo group acts as a 'brain trust' of Science Gallery Melbourne, drawing together a group of exceptional people from a range of backgrounds – science, technology, the arts, media, education and business. This is where themes for the new exhibitions are inspired and where collaborations are sparked.) Listen to her small radio documentary on Natasha Mitchell’s Radio National Science Friction program called ‘How do you solve a problem like Dark Matter?’, ‘What came before the Big Bang?’ and ‘The End of the Universe’.

An essay and poem on Dark Matter was published in Sight Unseen: Visualising the Unseeable through Art and Science (2024) with other contributions from: Thomas Apperley, Elisabetta Barberio, Monica Bello, Drew Berry, Justin Clemens, Madeleine Collie, Sean Cubitt, Peter Galison, Adrian Heathcote, Chris Henschke, Tessa Laird, Beverley Meldrum, Karlie Noon, Patricia Piccinini, Alicia Sometimes, Will Steffen, Paul Thomas, Marcus Volz, Lisa Waup, and Liam Young.

Alongside Nicole Hayes, Alicia edited an anthology of footy stories called From The Outer (Black Inc, 2016) with a list of incredible writers. They also put together A Footy Girl's Guide to the Stars of 2017 (Piccolo Nero) showcasing star players of the inaugural AFLW season.