Ellen van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven is an Aboriginal Australian writer and poet. Their first book, Heat and Light, won the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards' David Unaipon Award for unpublished Indigenous writers, the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Award's Indigenous Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize in 2015. Her second book, the poetry collection Comfort Food, was published in 2016. One of van Neerven's stories, Confidence Game, was featured in SBS podcast series, True Stories, in 2015.Early life
Van Neerven was born in 1990 to Dutch and Aboriginal parents. They studied Creative Writing at the Queensland University of Technology.Personal life
Van Neerven is a Yugambeh person. They are openly queer. They live in Brisbane, Australia.Awards and honours
Collections
Collections
- Comfort Food, University of Queensland Press
- Throat, University of Queensland Press
List of poems
- 'Invisible Spears', Overland Literary Journal
Anthologies
- Writing Black: New Indigenous Writing from Australia, edited by Ellen van Neerven, State Library of Queensland
- Joiner Bay and Other Stories, edited by Ellen van Neerven, Margaret River Press
- Homeland calling : words from a new generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices, edited by Ellen van Neerven, Desert Pea Media via Hardie Grant Publishing
Critical studies and reviews of van Neerven's work
