About Alison Whittaker
Alison Whittaker was an Australian academic, writer and poet.
Alison Whittaker is an Aboriginal Australian poet and academic of the Gomeroi people. She is a senior researcher at the University of Technology Sydney.
Her second poetry collection, BlakWork (2018), won the 2019 Judith Wright Calanthe Award.
Whittaker edited the 2020 collection Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power and presented a session of readings from it at the online 2020 Edinburgh International Book Festival.
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