Evelyn Araluen

Evelyn Araluen is a Goorie and Koori poet, editor and researcher. 

Her debut poetry collection, Dropbear, won the 2022 Stella Prize and the Australian Book Industry Award’s 2022 Small Publisher’s Adult Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Premier’s awards of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. Her work has also received the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and a Melbourne Prize Career Development Award.

Her second collection, The Rot (2025), won the Victorian Prize for Literature, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award’s most prestigious prize. The Rot was also awarded the Prize for Indigenous Writing.