User:Yvette R Holt

Yvette Holt is an Australian multi-national award winning poet, academic and visual artist. Heralding from the Yiman, Wakaman and Bidjara Nations of Queensland, Brisbane born Holt has lived and worked in remote Central Australia since 2009, her work amongst First Nation Australians in remote Aboriginal communities has included fields of health literacy, object and landscape photography, financial literacy, lecturing of creative writing, facilitating mentoring and editor of multiple poetry compilations.

In 2005, Holt received the Queensland Premier’s Literary David Unaipon Award for an unpublished manuscript titled Anonymous Premonition, the debut collection of poems (printed by University of Queensland Press 2008) then went on to win the Victorian Premier’s Indigenous Literary Prize in 2008, the Scanlon Prize for Poetry 2008 and the RAKA Challis Award (University of Melbourne) 2010. Anonymous Premonition has since been widely anthologised in print and online, poems from that collection has been translated in Mandarin, Mapuche and French.

In 2018 Yvette was appointed Chairperson of the First Nations Australia Writers Network FNAWN, the peak-body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers, poets and storytellers.