Salt by Bruce Pascoe

Bruce Pascoe was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond to Bunurong parents. He is a member of the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative in southern Victoria and has worked for the Commonwealth Schools Commission as the director of the Australian Studies Programme. Bruce has worked as a teacher, a farmer, a fisherman, a bartender, a fencing contractor, a lecturer, an Aboriginal language researcher, an archaeological site worker, and an editor, among other things. Night Animals and Nightjar are short story collections; Fox, Ruby Eyed Coucal, Ribcage, Shark, Earth, and Ocean are novels; Cape Otway: Coast of Secrets and Convincing Ground are historical works; Foxies in a Firehose is a children's book; and Fog a Dox is a young adult novel that won the Prime Ministers Literary Prize for YA Literature in 2013.