Amy McQuire

Darumbal and South Sea Islander academic, writer and journalist. Amy recently completed a PhD into Media Representations of Violence against Aboriginal Women at the University of Queensland. She has over 17 years experience working in Aboriginal and independent media. Her investigative podcast 'Curtain the Podcast', co-hosted with Martin Hodgson, delves into the wrongful conviction of Aboriginal man Kevin Henry. She has written for numerous publications including Meanjin, Griffith Review, New York Times, Washington Post, Vogue, Marie Claire, and BuzzFeed Australia amongst others. Her first non-fiction book "Black Witness" is due to be published in 2024 by University of Queensland Press, and her first children's book Day Break was published by Hardie Grant Children's Publishing in 2021. Amy's interest is in building a sovereign black media, writing on disappeared Aboriginal women, wrongful convictions and the brutality of the justice system. She is currently an Indigenous Post-Doctoral Fellow at the QUT School of Communications, under the Digital Research Media Centre and Centre for Justice.