When asked whether she considers herself primarily a writer, or an Aboriginal writer, she writes that the question runs into semantic difficulties, because the word means different things to different people. She has said that when she began writing seriously "there was still a glaring hole in Australian literature", with almost no prominent Aboriginal voices and with only the University of Queensland Press and a few other small outlets publishing the work of Aboriginal writers. In 1992 she was a founding member of Sisters Inside, an organisation which supports women and girls in prison. She is a graduate of Griffith University (1990), with an honours degree in public policy. Melissa Lucashenko was born in 1967 in Brisbane, Australia. In 2019, she won the Miles Franklin award for Too Much Lip. In 2013 at The Walkley Awards, she won the "Feature Writing Long (over 4000 words) Award" for her piece Sinking below sight: Down and out in Brisbane and Logan. Melissa Lucashenko is an Indigenous Australian writer of adult literary fiction and literary non-fiction, who has also written novels for teenagers. Adult literary fiction, literary non-fiction and novels for teenagers
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