Claire G Coleman is a Noongar woman whose family have belonged to the south coast of Western Australia since long before history started being recorded. She writes fiction, essays and poetry while traveling around the continent now called Australia in a ragged caravan. Her first novel, Terra Nullius, was shortlisted for the Stella Prize in 2018, and her second novel, The Old Lie, is due to be released by Hachette Australia later this year.