Melissa Lucashenko

Too Much Lip – on Aboriginal Hillbilly humour, family trauma and more

Melissa Lucashenko is an acclaimed Aboriginal writer of Goorie and European heritage. Melissa has been widely published as an award-winning novelist, essayist and short story writer. Her recent work has appeared in The Moth: Fifty True Stories, Meanjin, Griffith Review, and The Saturday Paper.

Her recent publication Too Much Lip gradually and explosively reveals painful secrets in a calamitous Aboriginal family. Gritty and darkly hilarious, Too Much Lip has been shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the NSW Literary Awards and is a contender for the Miles Franklin Award.