Riwoe is the author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain, set during the gold-rush era in Australia and told from the perspective of siblings Ying and Lai Yue, who have left China to seek their fortune in the gold fields.
[2] The judges for the ARA prize noted that 'The novel sheds light on a fascinating corner of history rarely illuminated in Australian literature.
[6] Riwoe's short story collection, The Burnished Sun, won the UQP Quentin Bryce Award;[7] and her novella, The Fish Girl, won the 2017 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize[8] and was shortlisted for The Stella Prize.
[9] Riwoe is also the author of She be Damned, a novel published as M. J. Tija as part of the Heloise Chancey historical crime series.
The novel is reviewed by Mia Ferreira in Arts Hub as 'a captivating escape to the romance and nostalgia of the Dutch East Indies on the cusp of World War II, where love and loyalties are tested and life is about to be immeasurably altered – Sunbirds by Queensland-based Mirandi Riwoe is one of those books that draws you into another place and time.