Anita Heiss

Anita Heiss (Wiradyuri Nation) is an internationally published, award-winning author of 23 books across genres. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray won the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Prize for Indigenous Writing, was shortlisted for the 2021 HNSA ARA Historical Novel (Adult Category) and longlisted for the 2022 Stella Prize. In 2023, she released a children’s book Bidhi Galing (Big Rain) illustrated by Samantha Campbell. Anita is also Publisher-At-Large for Bundyi Publishing, an S&S imprint.  Her latest book is Red Dust Running.