Melissa Lucashenko is an acclaimed award-winning novelist and essayist who lives between Brisbane and the Bundjalung nation.

Her novels include Steam Pigs, Hard Yards and Killing Darcy (all UQP). Melissa writes regularly for Griffith REVIEW, and her essay ‘The Angry Country’ was selected in Best Australian Essays 2010.

She is currently working on her fifth novel, Mullumbimby, a modern story of romantic love and friendship set amidst a native title war in northern NSW.

Melissa is a current board member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council.