Melissa Lucashenko
Melissa Lucashenko, a Bundjalung woman, is a multi-award winning novelist and essayist. In 2019 Too Much Lip won Australia’s most prestigious writing prize, the Miles Franklin. Her most recent novel, Edenglassie, won a total of eight literary awards, including the ARA Prize for Historical Fiction. Melissa is also a Walkley Award winner and a founding member of prisoner human rights organisation Sisters Inside. Melissa writes about ordinary people and the extraordinary lives they lead, with a particular eye to race, class and gender in contemporary Australia. Her latest book is a collection of essays, Not Quite White in the Head.
Melissa will be appearing in the following events:
MELISSA LUCASHENKO in conversation with Larissa Behrendt - Sat 31 Oct
BEWARE THE WHITE MODERATE: Melissa Lucashenko, Amy Remeikis and Bobuq Sayed in conversation with Antoun Issa - Sun 1 Nov