Eva Katerina Sallis[1] (also Eva Hornung[2]) (born 1964) is an Australian novelist, poet, writer and a visiting research fellow at University of Adelaide.
Her second novel, City of Sealions, was well received, and her novel-in-stories, Mahjar won the Steele Rudd Award.
Her 2009 novel Dog Boy won the 2010 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction.
[7][8] Sallis is a human rights activist, helping to found the organisation Australians Against Racism.
[9] In 2007 she presented the Dymphna Clark Memorial Lecture.