ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sally Morgan

Sally Morgan is an Indigenous writer and artist who was born in Perth in 1951. She belongs to the Palkyu people of the eastern Pilbara in Western Australia. Sally is best known for her award winning book, My Place, which charts the history of her family. Sally is now specialising in writing and illustrating books for children and young people. Her personal interests are reading, taking her dogs for a walk and gardening.

Born in

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Ambelin Kwaymullina

Ambelin Kwaymullina is an Aboriginal writer and illustrator who belongs to the Palyku people of the eastern Pilbara region of Western Australia. She works across a range of genres including picture books, YA, science fiction, verse and non-fiction.

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Blaze Kwaymullina

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ezekiel Kwaymullina

Ezekiel Kwaymullina is an Indigenous writer who was born in Perth in 1983. He belongs to the Palkyu people of the eastern Pilbara in Western Australia. Ezekiel works full time on his writing and published his first novel for young people, The Not so Goblin Boy, in 2011. Ezekiel loves writing for younger readers and has a particular interest in writing picture books. His personal interests are reading science fiction and fantasy books and

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Matt Ottley

Matt Ottley was born in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, where he spent the first eleven and a half years of his life. His mother was a landscape artist, and as a child he and his brothers regularly travelled with her on painting excursions into the bush and around the villages of the Western Highlands. 
After almost failing high school in Sydney, he lived the itinerate life of a stockman for some years on cattle stations in