Too Flash, a teenage novel about class and friendship, was released by IAD Press, Alice Springs, in late 2002. It was shortlisted for the Courier-Mail Book of the Year in 2001, as well as the NSW Premier’s Award. Her third novel, Hard Yards(UQP) concerns the aftermath of a death in custody. Melissa’s second novel, Killing Darcy, was written for teenagers, and won the Aurora Prize of the Royal Blind Society. A story of racial identity and working class life, Steam Pigs won the Dobbie Prize for Australian women’s fiction, was shortlisted in the NSW Premier’s Awards, and was shortlisted for the regional Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. Melissa’s first novel of urban Aboriginal Australia, Steam Pigs, was published by the University of Queensland Press in 1997 to critical acclaim. Her books have won or been shortlisted for many major awards. Since 1997, she has been widely published as a novelist, essayist and short story writer, with occasional forays into the world of criminalised women through the ground-breaking organisation she helped establish in Brisbane, Sisters Inside. After working as a barmaid, delivery driver and karate instructor, Melissa received an honours degree in public policy from Griffith University. Melissa Lucashenko is an acclaimed Australian writer of Goorie (Aboriginal) and European heritage.
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