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Lisa Fuller Lisa Fuller i(A145640 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Wakka Wakka ; Gooreng Gooreng / Gureng Gureng / Gurang Gurang
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BiographyHistory

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 Lisa won the David Unaipon Award for an Unpublished Indigenous Writer in 2017 for 'Mirrored Pieces'.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

Exhibitions

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Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2024 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups
2024 recipient The Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund to travel to Queensland to attend literary events to build skills and develop networks as a Murri literary agent.
2024 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Elevate : First Nations Storytelling
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Awards for Works

Don't Look! 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: Hometown Haunts : #LoveOzYA Horror Tales 2021; (p. 80-98)
2021 winner Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Horror Division — Short Story
2021 winner Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Young Adult Division — Short Story
y separately published work icon Ghost Bird St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2019 16861510 2019 single work novel young adult

'Remember daughter, the world is a lot bigger than anyone knows. There are things that science may never explain. Maybe some things that shouldn’t be explained.

'Stacey and Laney are twins – mirror images of each other – and yet they’re as different as the sun and the moon. Stacey works hard at school, determined to get out of their small town. Laney skips school and sneaks out of the house to meet her boyfriend. But when Laney disappears one night, Stacey can’t believe she’s just run off without telling her.

'As the days pass and Laney doesn’t return, Stacey starts dreaming of her twin. The dreams are dark and terrifying, difficult to understand and hard to shake, but at least they tell Stacey one key thing – Laney is alive. It’s hard for Stacey to know what’s real and what’s imagined and even harder to know who to trust. All she knows for sure is that Laney needs her help.

'Stacey is the only one who can find her sister. Will she find her in time?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2022 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Indigenous Writer's Prize
2020 winner Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award
2021 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
2020 winner Queensland Literary Awards — Griffith University Young Adult Book Award
2020 joint winner Norma K. Hemming Award — Long Form
2020 winner Readings Prizes — The Readings Young Adult Book Prize
2019 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Young Adult Division — Novel
2020 honour book CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers
2020 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Older Readers
2020 longlisted APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Young Adult Book designed by Joanna Hunt.
2017 winner Queensland Literary Awards — Unpublished Indigenous Writer : David Unaipon Award for unpublished manuscript titled 'Mirrored Pieces'.
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