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Lisa Fuller

Lisa is a Wuilli Wuilli woman from Eidsvold, Queensland, also descended from Wakka Wakka and Gooreng Gooreng peoples. She’s lived on Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands (Canberra) since 2006 and is doing her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Canberra. Lisa has won a number of awards, including the 2017 David Unaipon Award for an Unpublished Indigenous Writer.

Her debut novel, Ghost Bird, has won several awards, such as the 2020 ACT Book of the Year and the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards. It was also an Honour Book in the 2020 CBCAs Book of the Year Older Reader category and has been shortlisted for a number of awards. Ghost Bird was released in the UK in October 2021.

Lisa wears many hats in pursuit of her writing, including sessional academic, freelance writer, editor and publishing consultant. She has essays, short stories and poetry published across a number of publications.