Modern Australian

Author Anita Heiss on Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

  • Written by Jacinta Elston, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous), Monash University
Author Anita Heiss on Growing Up Aboriginal in AustraliaGrowing Up Aboriginal in Australia is a compilation of 52 essays from First Nations authors, some of whom have never been published before.Rounak Amini/AAP

Anita Heiss is one of the most prolific writers documenting Aboriginal experiences in Australia today through non-fiction, historical fiction, poetry and children’s literature. Her memoir,...