Since 1997 Melissa has been widely published as an award-winning novelist, essayist and short story writer. Melissa Lucashenko is an award-winning writer of novels including Steam Pigs, Mullumbimby and Hard Yards, and an essayist whose work regularly appears in Griffith REVIEW.She lives between Brisbane and the Bundjalung nation, and has been a board member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council.
Her novel Too Much Lip received the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her most recent novel, Mullumbimby, was awarded the 2013 Deloitte Queensland Literary Award for Fiction, won the 2014 Victorian Premiers Prize for Indigenous Writing, and was longlisted for both the Stella and Miles Franklin awards. Melissa Lucashenko’s name has been synonymous with vivid characters negotiating the complexities of belonging since her debut novel Steam Pigs was released in 1997. ... and the poetry of Romaine Moreton. And then there are other books that make you throw your arms up in the air and wonder why you bother, cos you suspect you ain’t gonna even get close! Why do you write? But while she shares some of their tastes and concerns, her writing differs markedly from anyone in that group, and her poetry doesn’t seem profoundly influenced by these poets – or by any other Australian writer. Melissa Lucashenko / Q & A. Posted on January 10, 2020 by Melissa Lucashenko John Mukky Burke – one of my favourite philosophers – is the most underrated poet in Australia. Tangled and tumultuous relationships are her hallmark, and the Salters, the family around which Too Much Lip centres, are no exception. It was also shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the Australian Book Industry Association Awards.
Melissa Lucashenko is an award-winning Aboriginal novelist who lives between Brisbane and the Bundjalung nation. Melissa Lucashenko is a multi-award winning Goorie writer. Also the non-Aboriginal U.S. nature writer Barry Lopez.
Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie author of Bundjalung and European heritage. Melissa Lucashenko is an Indigenous Australian writer of adult literary fiction and literary non-fiction, who has also written novels for teenagers.. Her recent work has appeared in The Moth: Fifty True Stories, Meanjin, Griffith … Melissa Lucashenko is an acclaimed Aboriginal writer of Goorie and European heritage. In 2013 at The Walkley Awards, she won the "Feature Writing Long (over 4000 words) Award" for her piece Sinking below sight: Down and out in Brisbane and Logan.In 2019, she won the Miles Franklin award for Too Much Lip. Melissa Lucashenko’s new novel Too Much Lip is a dark comedy about ordinary people. His usual lacerating intelligence and empathy are here in this sensational collection, but ‘exuberance’ is the word that keeps occurring to me as I read.