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Lisa Fuller

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About

Lisa is a Wuilli Wuilli woman from Eidsvold, Queensland, also descended from Wakka Wakka and Gooreng Gooreng peoples. She’s lived on Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands (Canberra) since 2006 and is doing her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Canberra. Lisa has won a number of awards, including the 2017 David Unaipon Award for an Unpublished Indigenous Writer.

Her debut novel, Ghost Bird, received the 2020 ACT Book of the Year, the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards, the 2020 The Readings Young Adult Book Prize, among others. Ghost Bird was released in the UK in October 2021.

Lisa wears many hats in pursuit of her writing, including sessional academic, freelance writer, editor and consultant. She has essays, short stories and poetry published across a number of publications.

Past Events

Telling Tales

Worlds Away: An Evening of Fantastical Storytelling

Saskia de Leeuw Kyle, Lisa Fuller, Amie Kaufman, Jes Layton, Audrey McKenzie, Lili Wilkinson, Anabel Liu-Mu

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