Melissa Lucashenko

Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie author of Bundjalung and European heritage whose fiction and nonfiction examine family, inequality, Country, and contemporary Australian life. Too Much Lip follows Kerry Salter back to her hometown, where the Salter family confronts old divisions while trying to protect a beloved river. University of Queensland Press describes the novel as both sharply funny and grounded in questions of cultural survival, forgiveness, and belonging. The book won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance. Lucashenko is also a Walkley Award winner and a founding member of Sisters Inside.