Nandi Chinna

Nandi works as a research consultant, creativity facilitator, and poet based on Bunuba lands in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Nandi received the 2021 Western Australian Premier’s Writing Fellowship for her project Two Rivers: First Nations Voices on Rivers and Wetlands. This project utilises a decolonising methodology which primacies the voices of First Nations people. Her poetry collection The Future Keepers, (Fremantle Press, 2019) was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award 2020, and the Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry 2019.