Anita is a writer, poet, activist, social commentator and academic.
She is the author of Yirra and her Deadly Dog, Demon, I’m Not Racist, But… , My Story: The Diary of Mary Talence, Sydney 1937, and a series of chick-lit novels, including Not Meeting Mr Right and Paris Dreaming.
Her work has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards (Young People’s History Prize) and she has won the Deadly Award for Writing a number of times.
She is a member of the Wiradjuri nation of central New South Wales, but grew up in Matraville, Sydney. Anita describes herself as a concrete Koori with a Westfield dreaming – a city chick whose idea of Survivor is a night in a caravan.
