Kim Scott is the multi-award winning novelist and author of Benang, That Deadman Dance and Taboo. Proud to be one among those who call themselves Noongar, Kim is founder of the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project, and is Professor of Writing in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University. Kim has won the Miles Franklin Award twice. First in 1999, for Benang and again in 2011, for That Deadman Dance, which won a host of awards including the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South East Asia and the Pacific.