Yvette Holt

Yvette Henry Holt—award-winning poet, editor, facilitator of literary workshops and chairperson of the First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN)—heralds from the Yiman, Wakaman and Bidjara Nations of Queensland. She won the 2010 RAKA Kate Challis Award, the 2008 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing and the 2008 Scanlon Prize for Poetry NSW.