Anita Heiss! She's written the only chicklit I actually enjoy reading, and I think she's at five books now: or maybe just four, hmm. Not Meeting Mr Right, Avoiding Mr Right, Manhattan Dreaming, and Paris Dreaming. (She's Wiradjuri, and her main characters are always strong, awesome indigenous women.) She also wrote the Stolen Generations story that is part of the My Australian Story collection.
Michelle Cooper (Chinese-Malay-Australian) has written three YA books: The Rage of Sheep is her first, and her only one set in Australia. (The other two are part of the Montmaray series and are very English-seeming.)
Haven't read Gabrielle Wang's "Little Paradise" yet, but really want to. It sounds AWESOME: "Melbourne, 1943, and Mirabel is seventeen. She's leaving school, designing dresses, falling in love. Then fate intervenes, her forbidden affair is discovered, and JJ is posted back to China where a civil war is raging. Despite all warnings, Mirabel sets off for Shanghai to find him... " Wang is also writing the "Poppy" books for the My Australian Girl series - Poppy is Chinese/Pangerang, and when we meet her, she is living in a children's home, having been stolen from her family.
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Michelle Cooper (Chinese-Malay-Australian) has written three YA books: The Rage of Sheep is her first, and her only one set in Australia. (The other two are part of the Montmaray series and are very English-seeming.)
Haven't read Gabrielle Wang's "Little Paradise" yet, but really want to. It sounds AWESOME: "Melbourne, 1943, and Mirabel is seventeen. She's leaving school, designing dresses, falling in love. Then fate intervenes, her forbidden affair is discovered, and JJ is posted back to China where a civil war is raging. Despite all warnings, Mirabel sets off for Shanghai to find him... " Wang is also writing the "Poppy" books for the My Australian Girl series - Poppy is Chinese/Pangerang, and when we meet her, she is living in a children's home, having been stolen from her family.