Caitlin Maling is a WA poet with three books out through Fremantle Press, the latest of which is Fish Song (2019). She has also published individual poems and creative nonfiction widely in Australia and overseas.

"Caitlin Maling’s Conversations I’ve never had is remarkable mainly for its gritty treatment of childhood and adolescence in Western Australia." -- Canberra Times

"Maling’s combination of hardness and emotion, experience and naivety, is productive and appealing." -- Weekend Australian

"These conversations are intimate glimpses of loss in which nature is pivotal to the poet’s inner dialogues. Maling’s family poems are particularly moving." -- Wasafiri Awards

Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards (Shortlisted 2016)