Graeme Dixon (1955-2010) was born in Perth, Western Australia. Between the ages of ten and fourteen he lived in a Salvation Army Boys Home, before being expelled from school. He was in and out of reformatories and at sixteen ended up in Fremantle Prison where is spent most of the next nine years.

His first poetry collection, Holocaust Island, was written in prison and was the inaugural winner of the David Unaipon Award in 1989.

Ali Cobby Eckermann is the winner of the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry. Her writing reflects her journey to reconnect with her Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha family.

Her first verse novel, "His Father's Eyes," was published in 2011. "Ruby Moonlight," her second verse novel, won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Book of the Year Award in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2013.

In 2014, Ali was the first Indigenous Australian writer to attend the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, USA. Her most recent collection of poetry is "Inside My Mother,