Melissa Lucashenko

Melissa Lucashenko is an Indigenous Australian writer of literary fiction and young adult literature. Lucashenko won the Miles Franklin Award in 2019 for Too Much Lip, and the Walkley Award for Long Feature Writing in 2013 for the piece "Sinking Below Sight: Down and Out in Brisbane and Logan." Other books under the name include Steam Pigs and Mullumbimby, the latter following a woman who buys a neglected property in the town of Mullumbimby to start again.