Alison Whittaker

Alison Whittaker is a Gomeroi poet, essayist and legal scholar, currently a Research Fellow at the Jumbunna Institute. In 2017–18, she was a Fulbright scholar and Dean’s Scholar in Race, Gender and Criminal Law at Harvard Law School. She is the author of acclaimed works including Blakwork and Fire Front, an anthology of First Nations poetry. Her work explores Indigenous sovereignty, justice and literary resistance.