Debra Dank
Dr Debra Dank is a Gudanji/Wakaja and Kalkadoon woman from the Barkly Tablelands in the Northern Territory and an Enterprise Fellow with the University of South Australia. She has spent 40 years working in primary, secondary and tertiary education roles, in urban and remote areas across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and the Northern Territory. She is interested in multiform narrative and its practice in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities and the role semiotics plays in that.
Debra’s book, We Come with This Place, won numerous honours in 2023, including four New South Wales Premier's Awards and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. She is also the author of Terraglossia, and Ankami. Debra is passionate about the environment, especially as her Country, on the Beetaloo Basin, is under threat of being fracked.