Alice Pung is a Melbourne writer and lawyer. Her bestselling memoir Unpolished Gem received the Australian Book Industry's Newcomer of the Year Award and was short-listed for the Age Book of the Year, the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and the Book sellers' Choice Awards. In 2008, Alice edited the collection Growing Up Asian in Australia.

Alice was born in Footscray, and grew up in Braybrook, attending local primary and secondary schools in the Western suburbs, including Tottenham North Primary School, Footscray Girls Secondary College, Christ the King College Braybrook, and Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School.

Alice's work has appeared in the Monthly, Good Weekend, the Australian, Age and Meanjin.