Leonie Stevens

Leonie Stevens is descended from Irish and German settlers. She is the author of six novels, including Nature Strip and The Marowack Two, a range of short fiction, and has edited two anthologies. The Australian Culture Wars of the early 2000s ignited a passion for true stories, and she turned to academia, studying history and archaeology. Her most recent book is Me Write Myself: The free Aboriginal inhabitants of Van Diemen’s Land at Wybalenna. She is a Research Fellow on the Global Encounters and First Nations Peoples project at Monash University.