June Monthly Blogger – Marie Munkara!

An enormous thanks to Luke Carman for his excellent posts.

This month our blogger is Marie Munkara. Her bio is below:

Marie was born on the banks of the Mainoru River in Arnhemland and spent her early years growing up on Bathurst Island. Her first Novel Every Secret thing (UQP) won the David Unaipon Award in 2008 and the NT Book of the Year in 2010. Her two children’s books (Laguna Bay) Rusty Brown and Rusty and Jojo, were released in January 2014, and her second novel A Most Peculiar Act in April 2014. Marie has recently completed her memoir (Random House / Penguin) and is currently working on a Television mini-series. 

Photo credit: Panos Couros