A Bit More About Me

I am a Wuilli Wuilli woman from Eidsvold, Queensland, also descended from Wakka Wakka and Gooreng Gooreng peoples. I've lived on Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands (Canberra) since 2006 where I work at the University of Canberra as Lecturer in Indigenous Studies. I also work as a freelance writer, editor, literary agent and publishing consultant. I have won a number of awards, including:

• a 2023 Varuna Fellowship

• a 2021 Varuna First Nations Fellowship

• a 2019 black&write Fellowship 

• the 2018 Varuna Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship, and

• the 2017 David Unaipon Award

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I tend to play and experiment a lot, which means I sometimes find myself in weird and unexpected spaces. I write across a number of spaces, including novels, shorts stories, poems, childrens, Young Adult, speculative fiction, memoir, the list goes on. I am a member of Us Mob Writing, the First Nations Australia Writers Network, the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild, Marion (formerly the ACT Writers Centre) and the Australian Society of Authors.

 

​I have a large extend family, including a huge number of niblings whom I adore. They inspire me every day. I live in a renovator's delight with my eternally patient partner, and our tear-away child. Life is an internal balance between my excitement and ambition with practical things like time and sleep.​