Alexis Wright

Alexis Wright is one of Australia's best-known Indigenous authors and a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. A writer, researcher, and social commentator, she has been widely published in magazines and journals. She has worked for many years on campaigns for Aboriginal land rights, Indigenous self-government and constitutional change in the Northern Territory, and for the prevention of Indigenous injury. Her books include Grog War (Magabala Books, 1997), Plains of Power (University of Queensland Press, 1997) and Carpentaria (Giramondo, 2006).

Carpentaria won the 2007 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, the Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction, the Queensland Premier's Award for Fiction, and the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year.

Alexis holds the position of Distinguished Fellow at the University of Western Sydney, Writing and Society Research Group, College of the Arts, where she is working on a new novel and completing a doctorate on Indigenous Storytelling.