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.