Julie Janson is a Burruberongal woman of Darug Aboriginal nation and a novelist, playwright, and poet. While living in remote Northern Territory Aboriginal Yolngu communities in her early years as a teacher, Julie wrote plays. Her career as a playwright began at Belvoir St Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre and Sydney Opera House Studio. Her novels are Madukka the River Serpent (UWA Publishing), which was longlisted for Miles Franklin Award 2023, and Benevolence (Magabala 2020 and Harper Collins in USA and UK), which was shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award in 2022 and nominated for the NIB Literary Award in 2020 and the Voss Literary Award in 2020. Her new novel, Compassion, will be published by Magabala in 2024.