Lisa Fuller is a Wuilli Wuilli woman from Eidsvold, Queensland, also descended from the Wakka Wakka and Gurang Gurang mobs. She has a Masters of Creative Writing, attended the 2014 Residential Editorial Program, and is the joint winner of the 2014 Anne Edgeworth Fellowship. She has previously published three poems and a short story in Etchings Indigenous: Treaty (2011) and six poems in By Close of Business (2013). An editor and publisher by trade, Lisa has undertaken a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Canberra, focussed on oral and archival research in and around her community. Lisa won the David Unaipon Award for an Unpublished Indigenous Writer in 2017 for 'Mirrored Pieces'. She also won the black&write! Fellowship in 2019.
Her debut novel Ghost Bird was published by UQ Press in 2019. Ghost Bird was nominated for several awards, and won the Queensland Literary Awards Griffith University Young Adult Award and The Norma K. Hemming Award.
Source: Queensland Literary Awards