Araluen is an Aboriginal Australian of the Bundjalung people, born on Dharug land.
She contributed a chapter, "Finding Ways Home", to Anita Heiss' Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia.
[7] After being runner-up in the 2016 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers for her poem, "Learning Bundjalung on Tharawal",[8] she won the following year for her short story, "Muyum: a transgression".
[10] In 2018 Araluen received one of the Wheeler Centre's inaugural Next Chapter grants, providing 12 months' mentoring by Tony Birch and a three-day writing retreat at Varuna, The Writers' House.
[11][12] Dropbear won the 2022 Stella Prize[13][14] and was highly commended in the 2021 Anne Elder Award.