Ellen van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven is a writer, editor and educator of Mununjali and Dutch heritage. Ellen's fiction debut Heat and Light was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award, the Dobbie Literary Award and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Indigenous Writers Prize.
Their poetry collection Throat was the recipient of Book of the Year, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Multicultural Award at 2021 NSW Literary Awards and the inaugural Quentin Bryce Award. Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity received the 2024 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction and was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction. Ellen's latest book, Ruby's Web, is a middle grade novel. It is a powerful story about finding your voice and addresses cyberbullying and victimisation.