Website: yvettehenryholt.com

Yvette Henry Holt

Yvette Henry Holt heralds from the Bidjara, Yiman and Wakaman Nations of Queensland. A multi-award-winning poet, academic, editor, and national facilitator of First Nations literature globally. Yvette has lived and worked in the greater region of the Australian Central Deserts for some fourteen years and worked in fields of economical literacy, financial environmental modelling, sustainable employment market and participation, governance & analysis throughout Central Australia. 

Her creative literary works have been published and translated in numerous languages — journals, and anthologies nationally and internationally over more than two decades. Yvette's first published collection of poetry titled Anonymous Premonition (UQP 2008) won the David Unaipon Queensland Premier Literary Award 2005, RAKA Kate Challis Award 2010, Victorian Premier's Indigenous Literary Award 2010, Scanlon Poetry Prize NSW 2008. 

Yvette's next collection of poetry titled Fitzroy North 3068 will be published by Upswell Publishing in March 2025.