Gaele Sobott

She spent time studying in France, and England where she completed a PhD on South African women writers at the University of Hull.

Sobott wrote the literary biography My Longest Round: the life story of Wally Carr, published by Magabala Books.

My Longest Round provides a Wiradjuri man's perspective on inner-city Sydney; the two-up games, the gangsters, and the way working-class neighbourhoods looked out for each other.

The stories capture the casual or determined oppression of men and women, the tenderness of human affection and the powerful rhythm of African myth.

The village's children laugh at her until they need her help one day, and Thara Meets the Cassipoohka Man addresses global warming.

[5] Sobott has also written on gender relations in Botswana during the Second World War and how the British government sought to increase food production in the then Bechuanaland Protectorate for export purposes.