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Nancy Hill-Wood Nancy Hill-Wood i(A110168 works by) (a.k.a. Nancy Hill)
Born: Established: Kyogle, Kyogle area, Far Northeast NSW, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal
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BiographyHistory

Nancy Hill-Wood was born at Kyogle and taken to Bombaderry Aboriginal Children's home as a baby. She stayed until she was twelve. She went to the Cootamundra Aboriginal Girls Home Training Home and remained there until she was fifteen.

Hill-Wood began writing in 2005, in response to memories of her childhood reactivated by comments by Pauline Hanson regarding racial difference. [Source: Love, Life and Pain, p. vii]

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