Anita Heiss

Anita Heiss (Wiradyuri Nation) is an internationally published author of over 20 books across genres. Her best-selling novel Tiddas was adapted for the stage and premiered at the Brisbane Festival in 2022. Her novel Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms was longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Prize. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray won the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Prize for Indigenous Writing, and was shortlisted for the 2021 HNSA ARA Historical Novel. Anita is an Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland. She is also Publisher at Large for Bundyi Publishing, a First Nations imprint with Simon & Schuster Australia.