Tony Birch is an Aboriginal Australian author, academic and activist who writes literary fiction, with novels including The White Girl, Blood, Common People, Ghost River and Shadowboxing. His 2019 novel The White Girl won the 2020 Indigenous Writers' Prize of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, and in 2017 he became the first Indigenous writer to win the Patrick White Award. Birch has also led the honours programme for creative writing at the University of Melbourne and appears regularly on ABC radio and at writers' festivals.
