Tara June Winch

"See, pain travels through our family tree like a songline. We’ve been singing our pain into a solid thing. "

Tara June Winch is a Wiradjuri author, born in Australia in 1983 and based in France.

Her first novel, Swallow the Air was critically acclaimed. She was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist, and has won numerous literary awards for Swallow the Air. A 10th Anniversary edition was published in 2016.

In 2008, Tara was mentored by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka as part of the prestigious Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Her second book, the story collection After the Carnage, was longlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for fiction, shortlisted for the 2017 NSW Premier’s Christina Stead prize for Fiction and the Queensland Literary Award for a collection. Her novel The Yield won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2020, as well as three of the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards including Book of the Year.