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==Career==
==Career==
Heiss is known as an author, poet, cultural activist and [[social commentator]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/profiles/content/s3245553.htm|title=Anita Heiss|date=16 June 2011|website= [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref> Her work spans [[non-fiction]], [[historical fiction]], commercial women's fiction, poetry, social commentary and travel articles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://readingaustralia.com.au/authors/anita-heiss-2/|title=Anita Heiss|website=Reading Australia|language=en-US|access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref>
Heiss is known as an author, poet, cultural activist and [[social commentator]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/profiles/content/s3245553.htm|title=Anita Heiss|date=16 June 2011|website= [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref> Her work spans [[non-fiction]], [[historical fiction]], commercial women's fiction, poetry, social commentary and travel articles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://readingaustralia.com.au/authors/anita-heiss-2/|title=Anita Heiss|website=Reading Australia|language=en-US|access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref>


Heiss is an advocate for [[Indigenous Australian literature]] and literacy, through her writing for adults and children and her membership of boards and committees. She is a Board Member for the National Aboriginal Sporting Chance Academy,<ref name=":0" /> an Advocate for the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence and an Indigenous Literacy Day Ambassador.<ref name=Heiss>{{cite web|last=Heiss|first=Anita|title=Welcome to Anita Heiss online!|url=http://www.anitaheiss.com/|publisher=Anita Heiss|accessdate=12 February 2014}}{{self-published inline|date=June 2017}}</ref>{{self-published inline|date=June 2017}}
Heiss is an advocate for [[Indigenous Australian literature]] and literacy, through her writing for adults and children and her membership of boards and committees. She is a Board Member for the National Aboriginal Sporting Chance Academy,<ref name=":0" /> an Advocate for the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence and an Indigenous Literacy Day Ambassador.<ref name=Heiss>{{cite web|last=Heiss|first=Anita|title=Welcome to Anita Heiss online!|url=http://www.anitaheiss.com/|publisher=Anita Heiss|accessdate=12 February 2014}}{{self-published inline|date=June 2017}}</ref>{{self-published inline|date=June 2017}}
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She was Deputy-Director at Warawara Department of Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University; Communications Advisor, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts and consultant researcher / writer for the Aboriginal History website at the City of Sydney. Anita was appointed to the State Library of Queensland board in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://statements.qld.gov.au/Statement/2017/3/5/new-queensland-library-board-appointments-announced|title=Media Statements|date=5 March 2017|website=Queensland Government|access-date=10 July 2017}}</ref>
She was Deputy-Director at Warawara Department of Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University; Communications Advisor, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts and consultant researcher / writer for the Aboriginal History website at the City of Sydney. Anita was appointed to the State Library of Queensland board in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://statements.qld.gov.au/Statement/2017/3/5/new-queensland-library-board-appointments-announced|title=Media Statements|date=5 March 2017|website=Queensland Government|access-date=10 July 2017}}</ref>


Heiss is Professor of Communications at the [[University of Queensland]] and was Adjunct Professor at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning (now [[Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research]]<ref>{{cite web | title=Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research | website=University of Technology Sydney| url=https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/jumbunna-institute-indigenous-education-and-research | access-date=22 February 2021}}</ref>) at the [[University of Technology, Sydney]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lib.uts.edu.au/news/962137/new-books-uts-authors|title=New books by UTS Authors {{!}} UTS Library - University of Technology Sydney|date=5 June 2019|website=UTS Library|language=en|access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref> from 2012–2014.<ref>{{cite document|url=https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/aboututs-utscalendar-2014-3.pdf|title=UTS Calendar 2014|p=24 |date= December 2013}}</ref>
Heiss is Professor of Communications at the [[University of Queensland]] and was Adjunct Professor at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning (now [[Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research]]<ref>{{cite web | title=Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research | website=University of Technology Sydney| url=https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/jumbunna-institute-indigenous-education-and-research | access-date=22 February 2021}}</ref>) at the [[University of Technology, Sydney]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lib.uts.edu.au/news/962137/new-books-uts-authors|title=New books by UTS Authors {{!}} UTS Library - University of Technology Sydney|date=5 June 2019|website=UTS Library|language=en|access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref> from 2012–2014.<ref>{{cite document|url=https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/aboututs-utscalendar-2014-3.pdf|title=UTS Calendar 2014|p=24 |publisher=University of Technology Sydney |date= December 2013}}</ref>


She runs her own communications business, Curringa Communications.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://abr.business.gov.au/|title=ABN Lookup|date=1 November 2014|website=abr.business.gov.au|language=en|access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref>
She runs her own communications business, Curringa Communications.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://abr.business.gov.au/|title=ABN Lookup|date=1 November 2014|website=abr.business.gov.au|language=en|access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref>

Revision as of 06:04, 22 February 2021

Dr.
Anita Heiss
Heiss in 2017
Born
Anita Marianne Heiss

1968 (age 55–56)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Alma materUniversity of New South Wales, Western Sydney University
Occupation(s)Author, presenter, commentator
Years active2000–present
Anita Heiss's voice
In Wiradjuri and English. Recorded 4 December 2018
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Anita Marianne Heiss (born 1968) is an Aboriginal Australian author, poet, cultural activist and social commentator.

Early life and education

Heiss was born in Sydney in 1968, and is a member of the Wiradjuri nation of central New South Wales. Her mother, Elsie Williams, was born at Erambie Mission, Cowra in Wiradjuri country, while her father, Josef Heiss, was born in St Michael in the Lungau, Salzburg, Austria.[1]

Heiss was educated at St Clare's College, Waverley, then at the University of New South Wales, where she completed her Bachelor of Arts in History (Honours) in 1991. She gained her PhD in Communication and Media at the University of Western Sydney in 2000.[citation needed][self-published source?]

Career

Heiss is known as an author, poet, cultural activist and social commentator.[2] Her work spans non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women's fiction, poetry, social commentary and travel articles.[3]

Heiss is an advocate for Indigenous Australian literature and literacy, through her writing for adults and children and her membership of boards and committees. She is a Board Member for the National Aboriginal Sporting Chance Academy,[2] an Advocate for the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence and an Indigenous Literacy Day Ambassador.[1][self-published source?]

Since 2000 Heiss has undertaken writers-in-residence positions at Macquarie University, Sydney, and throughout NSW.

She was Deputy-Director at Warawara Department of Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University; Communications Advisor, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts and consultant researcher / writer for the Aboriginal History website at the City of Sydney. Anita was appointed to the State Library of Queensland board in 2017.[4]

Heiss is Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland and was Adjunct Professor at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning (now Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research[5]) at the University of Technology, Sydney,[6] from 2012–2014.[7]

She runs her own communications business, Curringa Communications.[8]

Bibliography

Non-fiction

  • Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia (editor) (Black Inc, 2018) ISBN 9781863959810
  • Am I Black Enough For You (Random House, 2012) ISBN 9781742751924
  • Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature edited Anita Heiss and Peter Minter (Allen & Unwin Sydney 2008) ISBN 978 1 74175 438 4
  • Dhuuluu-yala, To Talk Straight: Publishing indigenous literature (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2003) ISBN 0-85575-444-3

Novels

Children's literature

Poetry

Humour

Other edited books

Awards, fellowships and grants

  • 2012 – Finalist: Human Rights Awards Media (non-fiction) for Am I Black Enough for You?[9]
  • 2012 – Winner: VIC Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing, 2012 for Am I Black Enough for You?[10]
  • 2011 – Winner: Deadly Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Literature for Paris Dreaming[11]
  • 2010 – Winner: Deadly Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Literature for Manhattan Dreaming[12]
  • 2008 – Winner: Deadly Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Literature, with Peter Minter for the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature.[13]
  • 2007 – Winner: Deadly Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Literature for Not Meeting Mr Right.[14]
  • 2004 – Nominee: Deadly Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Literature[15]
  • 2004 – Microsoft / Bulletin Magazine, Smart 100 (Arts and Entertainment).[2]
  • 2003 – Winner: Inaugural Australian Society of Authors Medal (Under 35) for contribution to Australian community and life.[16]
  • 2002 – Winner: NSW Premier's History Award (Audio Visual) for Barani: the Aboriginal History of the City of Sydney[17]
  • 2002 – Shortlist: NSW Premier's History Award (Young People's History) for Who Am I? The diary of Mary Talence, Sydney 1937.
  • NSW Indigenous Arts Fellowship, 2004
  • ANZAC Fellowship (NZ Department of External Affairs) to New Zealand to meet Maori authors and publishers. June 1997
  • Writer's Grants from the Australia Council for the Arts 1994/1996/2011

References

  1. ^ a b Heiss, Anita. "Welcome to Anita Heiss online!". Anita Heiss. Retrieved 12 February 2014.[self-published source?]
  2. ^ a b c "Anita Heiss". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 16 June 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Anita Heiss". Reading Australia. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  4. ^ "Media Statements". Queensland Government. 5 March 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  5. ^ "Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research". University of Technology Sydney. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  6. ^ "New books by UTS Authors | UTS Library - University of Technology Sydney". UTS Library. 5 June 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  7. ^ "UTS Calendar 2014" (Document). University of Technology Sydney. December 2013. p. 24. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
  8. ^ "ABN Lookup". abr.business.gov.au. 1 November 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  9. ^ "Nominees for the 25th Human Rights Awards announced (2012 Media Release) | Australian Human Rights Commission". www.humanrights.gov.au. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  10. ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing: Winner and Shortlist Announced". Wheeler Centre. 5 September 2012. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  11. ^ "17th Deadlys Winner Profiles" (PDF). Deadly Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
  12. ^ "2010 Deadly Awards | The Deadlys®". Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  13. ^ "Deadlys 2008 Winners Announced!". 17 October 2008. Archived from the original on 17 October 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  14. ^ "2007 Winners". Deadly Vibe. 10 August 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  15. ^ "Anita Heiss Wins Deadly Award". Copyright Agency. 28 September 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  16. ^ "ASA Medal". Australian Society of Authors. Archived from the original on 14 February 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
  17. ^ "City of Sydney's Barani Website wins prestigious NSW Premier's History Awards in the audio/visual category". City of Sydney. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
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