Anita Heiss
Anita Heiss (Wiradyuri Nation) is an internationally published, award-winning author of 25 books across genres. Her lastest novel is DIRRAYAWADHA (RISE UP)
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Anita Heiss
Dr Anita Heiss is an internationally published, award-winning author of 25 books across genres. She is a proud member of the Wiradyuri Nation of central NSW, an Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland.
Her adult fiction includes Not Meeting Mr Right, Avoiding Mr Right, Manhattan Dreaming, Paris Dreaming and Tiddas. Her novel Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms was shortlisted for the QLD Literary Awards, longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Prize and was the University of Canberra 2020 Book of the Year. 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, Anita released her first children’s book Bidhi Galing (Big Rain) illustrated by Samantha Campbell. Soon after she released an Audible Original titled Red Dust Running.
In 2023, Anita became Publisher at Large with Simon & Schuster, managing her own First Nations imprint, Bundyi Publishing.
Anita adapted her novel Tiddas for the stage, premiering at the 2022 Brisbane Festival in partnership with La Boite theatre, and the Sydney Festival in 2024, presented by Belvoir St. Her latest book is Dirrayawadha.