Tara June Winch
B. 1983-12-02
Tara June Winch was born of Wiradjuri and English heritage, who left home at 17 to travel across Australia. In 2004 the manuscript for her first book won the David Unaipon Award. She was chosen for the 2008-2009 Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative in which she was partnered with Nigerian writer and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. Winch was an ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Project and is currently ambassador for Children's Ground.