Ali Cobby Eckermann
Ali Cobby Eckermann is an award-winning Yankunytjatjara poet. Her first collection Little bit long time launched her literary career in 2009. In 2013, she won the Kenneth Slessor Prize and Book Of The Year (NSW) for Ruby Moonlight.
In 2014, Ali was the inaugural recipient of the Tungkunungka Pintyanthi Fellowship at Adelaide Writers Week, and the first Aboriginal writer to attend the International Writing Program at University of Iowa. In 2017, she received a Windham Campbell Award for Poetry from Yale University. She was awarded a Literature Fellowship by the Australian Council for the Arts in 2018, and in 2019 was awarded a prestigious Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in Italy. She is the Earth, a verse novel, won the 2024 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Book of the Year and Indigenous Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the Stella Prize.