Ali Cobby Eckermann (59 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal; Aboriginal Yankunytjatjara people; Aboriginal Kokatha

BiographyHistory

Ali Cobby Eckermann grew up in South Australia and has spent time living in the Northern Territory. Ali's family are from the APY Lands (Anangu, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara) north west of South Australia. In 2006 she was chosen for the Australian Society of Authors mentorship program. [Source: TERRA, p. 397] Ali co-ordinated the Fred Hollows Foundation See My World project for Indigenous young adults and is involved in the Aboriginal Writers Retreat based in Koolunga, South Australia.

In 2011, Eckermann's verse novel manuscript, Ruby Moonlight, won the kuril dhagun Indigenous Writing Fellowship, which is part of the black&write! Indigenous Editing and Writing Project, the State Library of Queensland.

Awards

2006 ASA Mentorship Poetry
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Awards for Works

Ruby Moonlight : A Novel of the Impact of Colonisation in Mid-North South Australia Around 1880 , 2012 novel single work The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact which, in a tense unravelling of events, is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal lawman. The natural world is richly observed and Ruby's courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons. [From the publisher's website]
2013 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
2013 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Book of the Year
2012 winner Deadly Sounds Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music, Sport, Entertainment and Community Awards — Outstanding Achievement in Literature
2011 winner State Library of Queensland Indigenous Writing Fellowship
Intervention Pay Day "I love my wife she right skin for me pretty one my wife young one..." , Southerly , vol. 71 no. 2 National Indigenous Times , 7 July vol. 10 no. 229 Fishtails in the Dust : Writing from the Centre , The Best Australian Poems 2009 , Little Bit Long Time , Northern Territory Literary Awards 2008 , 2008 poetry single work
2008 winner Northern Territory Literary Awards — Dymocks Red Earth Poetry Award
Faiku "I drink in the street..." , Northern Territory Literary Awards 2008 , 2008 poetry single work
2008 finalist Northern Territory Literary Awards — Dymocks Red Earth Poetry Award
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