Tasma Walton

Tasma is a proud Bunurong/Boonwurrung woman from the saltwater country of Melbourne and surrounding coastlines. As an award-winning actor, she has appeared in many well-recognised films and television series, including Mystery Road, Reckless, The Twelve, How To Please A Woman, Rake and Deadloch. As a writer, she has recently co-won the ARA Historical Novel prize for I Am Nannertgarrook, which was also shortlisted for the NIB Literary Award and long listed for the Indie Book Awards. Tasma’s first novel, Heartless, was nominated for an ABIA Award for General Fiction, and the first book in her children’s series Nerra: Deep Time Traveller was longlisted for the DANZ Children’s Book Award.