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Dylan Coleman Dylan Coleman i(A86895 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal Kokatha ; Greek ; Aboriginal
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BiographyHistory

Dylan Coleman is the daughter of Mercy Glastonbury (q.v.) and with her family, shares strong connections to country, culture and tradition. She is a member of the Kokatha Mula Nation and grew up in Thevenard on the far west coast of South Australia.

She holds a BA from the University of South Australia and Northern Arizona University (USA), and both a Masters of Arts in Creative Writing and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide. Her novel Mazin Grace was the creative component of her PhD.

A lecturer in Yaitya Purruna, the Indigenous Health Unit at the University of Adelaide, Coleman works in community engagement within various Indigenous communities throughout Australia and in the area of public health in South Australia specifically, with a focus on substance misuse and building community capacity and resilience through community-controlled approaches to health.

A second novel, Clear Water White Death, was shortlisted for the David Unaipon Award in 2011 and won a Black & Write Writing Fellowship in 2016, but has not been published as of 2017.

Exhibitions

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2018 joint winner Fleurio Film Festival award Best Director

for the short film Spin Out

2016 joint winner black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowships For unpublished manuscript Clear Water White Death
2014 highly commended black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowships Clear Water White Death

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Mazin Grace 2011 St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2012 Z1804070 2011 single work novel (taught in 1 units) 'Growing up on the Mission isn't easy for clever Grace Oldman. When her classmates tease her for not having a father, she doesn't know what to say. Pappa Neddy says her dad is the Lord God in Heaven, but that doesn't help when the Mission kids call her a bastard. As Grace slowly pieces together clues that might lead to answers, she struggles to find a place in a community that rejects her for reasons she doesn't understand.'
Source: Publisher's website
2013 shortlisted Commonwealth Book Prize
2013 longlisted The Stella Prize
2011 winner Queensland Literary Awards Unpublished Indigenous Writer : David Unaipon Award
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