She was the first writer to win the Stella Prize twice, in 2018 for her "collective memoir" of Leigh Bruce "Tracker" Tilmouth and in 2024 for Praiseworthy.
[2] She is an Aboriginal Australian woman of the Waanyi nation in the highlands of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.
[3] When the Northern Territory Intervention proposed by the Howard Government in mid-2007 was introduced, Wright delivered a high-profile 10,000-word speech, sponsored by International PEN.
The book delves into the cultural and racial political challenges facing Australia's Indigenous peoples.
The performance included both contemporary and traditional songs, and had its world premiere at the 2009 Melbourne International Arts Festival.
[13] The show was reprised for the 2014 Adelaide Festival,[14][15] with performers including Trevor Jamieson, Archie Roach, Lou Bennett, Emma Donovan, Paul Dempsey, and many other singers and musicians.
[19] In 2018, Wright conducted another storytelling collaboration, this time with the Gangalidda leader and activist Clarence Walden in Doomadgee, Northern Queensland.
program on ABC Radio National in June 2019,[20] and Straight from the Heart, a screen documentary that premiered at World Literature and the Global South in August 2019.
[28] and was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction 2019.
[40] Building on her success with Tracker, her theme for the project focuses on forms of Aboriginal oral storytelling.