Nardi Simpson
Nardi Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay writer, musician, composer, and educator from northwest NSW.
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Nardi Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay writer, musician, composer, and educator from northwest NSW freshwater plains. A founding member of Indigenous folk duo Stiff Gins, Nardi has been performing nationally and internationally for 20 years. Her debut novel, Song of the Crocodile, was the 2018 winner of the black&write! Fellowship. Since then, it has been shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards for Indigenous Writing; in the 2021 Indie Book Awards for Debut Novel; in the 2021 NSW Premiers’ Literary Awards for the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing; as well as longlisted for the 2021 Stella Prize; and 2021 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year. Nardi is currently undertaking a PhD in composition at the Australian National University, researching the traditions of song and story in her beloved Yuwaalaraay homelands.