Anita Heiss
Dr Anita Heiss is an internationally published, award-winning author of 23 books; non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction and children’s novels. She is a proud member of the Wiradyuri Nation of central New South Wales, an …
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David Unaipon
David Unaipon is considered to be the first Indigenous Australian author, publishing Aboriginal legends in the 1920s. Without permission, the publisher Angus and Robertson sold the copyright of the stories to William Ramsay Smith who published Myths …
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Mudrooroo Nyoongah (Colin Johnson)
Born Colin Johnson at Cuballing in Western Australia in 1938, Mudrooroo left Perth for Melbourne in the 1950s. He studied at night while working in the Motor Registration Office and State Library. He wrote Wild Cat Falling (1965), which was welcomed…
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Tara June Winch
Tara June Winch is a Wiradjuri author, born in Australia in 1983 and based in France. Her first novel, Swallow the Air was critically acclaimed. She was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist, and has won numerous literary …
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Bronwyn Bancroft
Born in Tenterfield, northern New South Wales, Dr Bronwyn Bancroft is a descendant of the Djanbun clan of the Bundjalung nation. Bronwyn is a leading Indigenous artist, illustrator and art administrator whose work is held at the National Gallery of …
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Pat Torres
Pat Torres belongs to three Indigenous groups: the Jabirr Jabirr from the north of Broome, the Nyul Nyul from the Beagle Bay area and the Yawuru people from Broome. She is a writer, artist, illustrator, community worker, health worker, educator and …
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Lee Cataldi
Lee Cataldi was born in Sydney in 1942 to an Anglo-Australian mother and Italian father. She completed a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney in 1962 and then a Bachelor of Letters from Oxford University in 1968. She became a high school …
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Hugh Dolan
HUGH DOLAN is a former intelligence officer with the Royal Australian Air Force. He is the creator of a series of historical graphic novels, including Gallipoli: The Landing (2014) and Reg Saunders: An Indigenous War Hero (2015), and the author of 36…
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Adrian Threlfall
ADRIAN THRELFALL is a lecturer in history at Victoria University, Melbourne, and a member of the education team at the Shrine of Remembrance, Victoria. A former infantryman in the Australian Army Reserve, he is the author of Reg Saunders: An …
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Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr
Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr is a Yolŋu man from the Ganalbingu clan and is known for his paintings of Ganalbingu song lines as well as his mother’s Wägilak clan stories. Along with other members of his clan, Johnny keeps culture strong through …
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