Anita Heiss

Anita Heiss AM DLitt (Wiradyuri Nation) is an internationally published, award-winning author and editor of over 20 books across genres, including non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction and novels for children. Her best-selling novel Tiddas was adapted for the stage and premiered at the Brisbane Festival in 2022 and the Sydney Festival in 2024.

Her novel Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms was longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Prize and was the University of Canberra 2020 Book of the Year. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray won the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Prize for Indigenous Writing and was shortlisted for the 2021 HNSA ARA Historical Novel.

Her children’s fiction includes Yirra and her deadly dog, Demon (2007), Who Am I? (2021), Harry’s Secret (2027) and Koori Princess (2022).

In 2023, Anita released Bidhi Galing (Big Rain) illustrated by Samantha Campbell.

Anita is a proud member of the Wiradyuri Nation of central NSW, an Ambassador for the GO Foundation, a Lifetime Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. She is also Publisher at Large for Bundyi Publishing, a First Nations imprint with Simon & Schuster Australia. Anita enjoys running, meeting her readers and being a creative disruptor.