Evelyn Araluen

Evelyn Araluen is a Goorie and Koori poet, editor and educator. Her debut poetry collection DROPBEAR won the 2022 Stella Prize, and her second collection, THE ROT, was nominated for the 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards for Poetry and Indigenous Writing. She works across the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, Overland Literary Journal, and the Institute of Postcolonial Studies.