Yvette Henry Holt

Yvette Henry Holt heralds from the Bidjara, Yiman and Wakaman Nations of Queensland, Brisbane born and schooled in the now multicultural western suburban district of Inala East — Yvette is a multi award-winning poet, international social & landscape photographer, editor, and publisher. Executive Chairperson of the First Nations Australia Writers Network FNAWN, National Board Director & First Nations Cultural Protocols Director to AP Australian Poetry, Yvette holds more than twenty-five years of national literary associations and facilitations. Between 2009-2021, Yvette lived and worked across eighteen remote and extreme remote Aboriginal communities throughout Central Australia, WA, QLD and South Australia borders in fields of financial literacy, Central Australian remote health development, including the WA/NT borders, APY/NPY South Australia/NT, Queensland/NT borders, Utopia, and throughout the Barkly and surrounding areas of Tennant Creek within the folds of literature, creative writing workshops, financial and English literacy, mentoring, and volunteering her time among emerging, established and multi-published Territorian writers, playwright, storytellers and poets. Yvette's expansive body of literature works include; essays, poetry, prose, short-stories best of collections, many of which have been anthologised nationally and internationally in print and online. Yvette's artistic queer lens for photography include portfolios of urbane and religious erotica as well as subjective landscapes throughout the Central Australian deserts including Spinifex Scriptures eTropic19.1(2020) Special Issue: ‘Environmental Artistic Practices and Indigeneity’.