Ali Cobby Eckermann’s first collection little bit long time launched her literary career in 2009. In 2013 Ali toured Ireland as Aust. Poetry Ambassador and won the Kenneth Slessor Prize and Book Of The Year (NSW) for Ruby Moonlight, a massacre verse novel. In 2014 Ali was the inaugural recipient of the Tungkunungka Pintyanthi Fellowship at Adelaide Writers Week, and the first Aboriginal Australian writer to attend the International Writing Program at University of Iowa. In 2017 Ali received a Windham Campbell Award for Poetry from Yale University USA. She was awarded a Literature Fellowship by the Australian Council for the Arts in 2018. In 2019 Ali was awarded a prestigious Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in Italy. She is the Earth is her new verse novel published by Magabala Books in 2023.
On the shelves
Poetry
- She is the Earth
- Ruby Moonlight
- Inside my Mother
- Love Dreaming and Other Poems
- Holocaust Island / Graeme Dixon & Ali Cobby Eckermann
Anthologies and criticism
- Where the shoreline used to be : an anthology from Australia and beyond / edited by Susan La Marca & Pam Macintyre
- Poetry in multicultural Oceania : using diverse perspectives to build students' understanding of poetry and multiculturalism / Vaughan Rapatahana
- Guwayu -- for all times : a collection of first nations poems / commissioned by Red Room Poetry ; edited by Jeanine Leane
- Fire front : First Nations poetry and power today / edited by Alison Whittaker
- Anthology of Australian prose poetry / Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington