Claire G. Coleman
Claire G. Coleman is a Noongar woman whose ancestral country is on the south coast of Western Australia. Her debut novel Terra Nullius, published in Australia and in the US, won a Norma K. Hemming Award and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Aurealis Science Fiction Award among others. Her second novel is The Old Lie [2019] and she most recently published Lies, Damned Lies [2021]. She writes essay, verse and fiction unpacking the effect of colonisation on Indigenous lives. Her art writing has included catalogue essays for the Art Gallery of South Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Gallery of Australia among others and her art journalism has been published in Art Collector and NGV Magazine.