Nardi Simpson

Nardi Simpson is a Youwahlaray storyteller from NSW’s northwest freshwater plains.  As a member of Indigenous duo Stiff Gins, Nardi has travelled nationally and internationally for the past 22 years.  She is also a founding member of ‘Freshwater,’ an all-female vocal ensemble formed to revive the language and singing traditions of New South Wales river communities.

Nardi’s debut novel ‘Song of the Crocodile’ was winner of the 2018 Black&Write Fellowship, longlisted for the 2021 Miles Franklin Award and winner of the 2021 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for Writing.

Nardi is a graduate of Nara Burriya First People’s Composers and is the current musical director of ‘Barayagal’ a cross-cultural choir run out to eh University of Sydney.