Ellen van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven is a Brisbane-based writer. She is the 2013 winner of the David Unaipon Award-Unpublished Indigenous Writer. Her first book, Heat and Light (UQP, 2014), was published in September. Ellen’s writing has appeared widely in publications such as McSweeney’s, Review of Australian Fiction, The Lifted Brow, Voiceworks, Ora Nui andMeanjin.
Ellen works at the State Library of Queensland as part of the black&write! Indigenous writing and editing project which aims to support and promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers. Ellen is the editor of the enhanced e-book Writing Black: New Indigenous Writing from Australia