Alison Whittaker is a Gomeroi poet, essayist and legal scholar. She is a Senior Researcher at the Jumbunna Institute. Her award-winning works include Lemons in the Chicken Wire and Blakwork, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Award and received a Queensland Literary Award. Her most recent book, Fire Front, is an anthology of, and about, First Nations published poetry.
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