Evelyn Araluen is a Goorie and Koori poet, editor, educator and fibre artist, born and raised in the Dharug and broader Bla(c)k Western Sydney community, now living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country. Her debut poetry collection DROPBEAR won the 2022 Stella Prize, and her second book, THE ROT, won the 2026 Victorian Prize for Literature and Victorian Premier’s Award for Indigenous Writing. She weaves, teaches and writes across the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, Overland Literary Journal, and the Institute of Postcolonial Studies.

She holds a PhD in Aboriginal women's inscriptive storytelling practices from the University of Sydney, and is currently working on an interdisciplinary project to explore how marginalised histories of crafting can respond to the critical urgency of end stage capitalist imperialism. Across all her practices she aspires to revere and honour the beauty and diversity of First Nations storytelling practices.