Cheryl Leavy

Cheryl Leavy writes across creative non-fiction, poetry and children’s literature. Her bilingual picture book Yanga Mother, published by UQP, was recently shortlisted for an Australian Book Industry Award. Cheryl’s poetry is commissioned widely here and internationally since winning the 2022 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize. Her creative non-fiction and poetry is included in the recently published First Nations collection, Words to Sing the World Alive.