Ellen van Neerven

Ellen van Neerven (born 1990) is an Indigenous Australian writer and poet. Her first book, Heat and Light, won the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards' David Unaipon Award for unpublished Indigenous writers, the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Award's Indigenous Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize in 2015. Her second book, the poetry collection Comfort Food, was published in 2016. One of van Neerven's stories, Confidence Game, was featured in SBS podcast series, True Stories, in 2015.

Van Neerven was born in 1990 to Dutch and Aboriginal parents. She studied Creative Writing at the Queensland University of Technology.

Van Neerven is a Yugambeh woman. She is openly queer. She lives in Brisbane, Australia.

• 2013 Queensland Literary Awards' David Unaipon Award for Unpublished Indigenous Writers for Heat and Light
• 2015 Dobbie Literary Award for Heat and Light
• 2015 Stella Prize shortlist for Heat and Light
• 2015 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist for Heat and Light
• 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Award - Indigenous Writers Prize for Heat and Light

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