She Is the Earth

Ali Cobby Eckermann was born in 1963 in Brighton, Adelaide, Australia. Her first book of poetry was Little Bit Long Time. Her first verse novel was His Father's Eyes. Her second verse novel, Ruby Moonlight, won the Kuril Dhagun Indigenous Writing Fellowship and the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. It also was awarded the "Book of the Year" at the show more NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 2013. Some of her other works include her autobiography, Too Afraid to Cry, and two poetry books, Love Dreaming & Other Poems and Inside My Mother. She was the winner of the Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Fellowship from the 2016 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) show less