Annaliese Porter has been writing poetry since she was five. Her poem "The Outback" won a poetry prize at the Gunnedah Eisteddfod and was later illustrated by Bronwyn Bancroft and published by Magabala Books in Australia. A then ten year-old Annaliese was invited to contribute a poem to the Fingerprints project and perform her work at the Sydney Writers Festival in May, 2004.