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Dylan Coleman is the daughter of Mercy Glastonbury (q.v.) and with her family, shares strong connections to country, culture and tradition. She is a member of the Kokatha Mula Nation and grew up in Thevenard on the far west coast of South Australia. She has also made films with brother Staurme Glastonbury.

She holds a BA from the University of South Australia and Northern Arizona University (USA), and both a Masters of Arts in Creative Writing and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide. Her novel Mazin Grace was the creative component of her PhD.

A lecturer in Yaitya Purruna, the Indigenous Health Unit at the University of Adelaide, Coleman works in community engagement within various Indigenous communities throughout Australia and in the area of public health in South Australia specifically, with a focus on substance misuse and building community capacity and resilience through community-controlled approaches to health.

A second novel, Clear Water White Death, was shortlisted for the David Unaipon Award in 2011 and won a Black & Write Writing Fellowship in 2016, but has not been published as of 2017.