Blak Magic Women

Authors

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  Alice Skye

  Alice Skye is an Australian singer and songwriter. She is a British and Wergaia/Wemba Wemba woman from Horsham.
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  Amy McQuire

  Amy McQuire is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander woman from Rockhampton, Central Queensland. She is a prolific Aboriginal affairs journalist, academic, writer and commentator who has been published in Guardian Australia, The National Indigenous Times, The Saturday Paper, BuzzFeed News Australia, New Matilda, Vogue Australia, Marie Claire, The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others.
  
  She currently co-hosts Curtain The Podcast, which was named one of the Top 25 True Crime Podcasts by New York’s Vulture magazine. In 2019 she won a Clarion Award and was nominated for a Walkley Award for her essay on the wrongful conviction of Aboriginal man Kevin Henry, and in 2023 she won Meanjin’s Hilary McPhee Award for brave essay writing for her piece on the disappearing of Aboriginal women. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Carumba Institute.
  
  Her latest book is Black Witness.
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  Anita Heiss

  Anita Heiss is an internationally published, award-winning author of 25 books across genres. She is a proud member of the Wiradyuri Nation of central NSW, an Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland.
  
  Her adult fiction includes Tiddas which she adapted for the stage. Her novel Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms was shortlisted for the QLD Literary Awards and 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 (Adult Category).
  
  Her latest book is Dirrayawadha (Rise Up).
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  Nardi Simpson

  Nardi Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay storyteller and performer living in Sydney. Her first novel Song of the Crocodile was long listed for the 2021 Stella Prize and Miles Franklin Awards and in October 2024, Nardi’s second novel The Belburd was published by Hachette Australia. Nardi is a research associate at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, growing story and sound projects in both her Sydney and Yuwaalaraay communities.

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