Melissa Lucashenko country of citizenship Australia
Melissa Lucashenko is an Indigenous Australian writer of adult literary fiction and literary non-fiction, who has also written novels for teenagers.
In 2013 at The Walkley Awards, she won the "Feature Writing Long (over 4000 words) Award" for her piece Sinking below sight: Down and out in Brisbane and Logan. In 2019, she won the Miles Franklin award for Too Much Lip.Early life and education
Melissa Lucashenko was born in 1967 in Brisbane, Australia. Her heritage is Bundjalung and European. She is a graduate of Griffith University (1990), with an honours degree in public policy.In 1992 she was a founding member of Sisters Inside, an organisation which supports women and girls in prison.
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