Anita Heiss

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Anita Heiss (born 1968) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian author.^{[citation needed]}

Anita Heiss is from the Wiradjuri people though she grew up in and lives in Sydney.^[1] Her mother was brought up in a Catholic mission and her father is originally from Austria.^[2] She grew up in the suburb of Matraville and attended Saint Claire's Catholic College. She is currently an associate professor at Macquarie University, a director of the Gadigal Information Services and Koori Radio and deputy chairperson of the Australian Society of Authors. Her most recent work is the novel Not meeting Mr. Right which was published in 2007. Apart from performing her work at festivals around Australia and internationally Heiss has also recently written and directed her first short film Checkerboard Love.

[edit] Bibliography

Novels

• Not meeting Mr. Right (Bantam, 2007) ISBN 9781863255110

Poetry

• Token Koori (Curringa Communications, 1998) ISBN 0646352903
• I’m Not Racist, But ... (Salt, 2007) ISBN 9781844713165

Non-fiction

• Dhuuluu-yala, To Talk Straight: Publishing indigenous literature (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2003) ISBN 0855754443

Humour

• Sacred cows (Magabala, 1996) ISBN 1875641254

For children

• Who am I? The diary of Mary Talence, Sydney 1937 (Scholastic Australia, 2001) ISBN 1865043613
• Yirra and her deadly dog, demon (ABC Books, 2007) ISBN 9780733320392

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official home page
• Anita Heiss talks Video and transcript
• Anita Heiss reviews some new Aboriginal literature
• Not Meeting Mr Right by Anita Heiss Review

Persondata
NAME	Heiss, Anita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Indigenous Australian author
DATE OF BIRTH	1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH