Marie Munkara: Of Rembarranga, Tiwi and Chinese descent Marie was delivered on the banks of the Mainoru River in Arnhemland by her two grandmothers and spent her early years on Bathurst Island. Her first Novel Every Secret Thing (University of Queensland Press) won the David Unaipon Award in 2008 and the Northern Territories Book of the Year in 2010. Her two children’s books Rusty Brown and Rusty and Jojo (Laguna Bay Oxford Press) were launched in January 2014 and her second novel A Most Peculiar Act (Magabala) in May. Marie is currently working on her third and fourth novels (depending on what mood she’s in) and the TV mini-series for Every Secret Thing. Marie lives in Darwin with her teenage daughter and a menagerie of cats, dogs, frogs and the occasional visiting python.