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Lucashenko, Melissa (1967-)

Melissa Lucashenko is an acclaimed Aboriginal writer of Goorie and European heritage. Since 1997 Melissa has been widely published as an award-winning novelist, essayist and short story writer. Her recent work has appeared in The Moth: Fifty True Stories, Meanjin, Griffith Review, and The Monthly. 

"Melissa Lucashenko." Melissa Lucashenko, 2023.

Lucashenko's 2018 novel Too Much Lip was added to the English Literature Prescribed Text List in 2026, as an option for the personal Investigation Project unit.

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  • Lucashenko, Melissa. "Dreamers." Flock : First Nations stories then and now, edited by Ellen van Neerven, UQP, 2021.
  • ---. "Tonsils." McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, edited by Dave Eggers, no. 41, McSweeney's, 2013.

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