Toni Tapp Coutts

Toni Tapp Coutts (born 7 November 1955) is an Australian author who has written extensively about her experiences growing up in the Northern Territory of Australia.

In her books she offers a tender portrait of the many characters who she encountered there and her love of the natural world.

While there, she created the Heartbreak Bush Ball and started riding campdraft in rodeos all over the Northern Territory, becoming one of the NT's top riders.

During this time she formed a lobby group to establish a chemotherapy unit and cancer support office in Katherine.

[12] In 2020 and 2021 Tapp Coutts donated a collection of Personal and Community Archives (PCA 7) to Library & Archives NT: this collection consists of magazine and newspaper clippings, correspondence, personal papers and notes, event notices, ephemera, newsletters, CDs and posters relating to her family and community.