Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning writer of Mununjali Yugambeh (South East Queensland) and Dutch heritage. They write fiction, poetry, plays and non-fiction. Ellen' s first book, Heat and Light, was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award, the Dobbie Literary Award and the NSW Premier' s Literary Awards Indigenous Writers Prize. Ellen' s second book, a collection of poetry, Comfort Food, was shortlisted for the NSW Premier' s Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize and highly commended for the 2016 Wesley Michel Wright Prize. Throat is Ellen' s highly anticipated second poetry collection.