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,