Bundanon

Melanie Mununggurr-Williams is a writer, poet and the 2018 Australian Poetry Slam Champion.

A Djapu woman from Yirkala in North East Arnhem Land, she is a proud wife, and mother of two young children. Mununggurr-Williams writing is often focused around family, place and her identity as an Aboriginal woman. As a mother to a child with autism, Melanie is a great advocate for raising autism awareness and uses her poetry as a means to do so.

Mununggurr-Williams has spent the last decade working with families, young people and children involved with juvenile justice and department of children and families. Most recently she has worked as a mentor for young Indigenous women in various girls programs located in schools across the NT.

Mununggurr-Williams was in residence at Bundanon as the Word Travels Artist in Resident 2018 Australian Poetry Slam Champion.