Ms Samantha Faulkner

Samantha is a Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal woman, from Badu and Moa Islands in the Torres Strait and the Yadhaigana and Wuthathi peoples of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. She is the proud author of Life Blong Ali Drummond: A Life in the Torres Strait, (Aboriginal Studies Press, July 2007) and editor of Pamle: Torres Strait Islanders in Canberra (2018).

Her poetry and short stories are published nationally and internationally. She is a member of the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Network and MARION (ACT Writers).  She is Treasurer, First Nations Australia Writers Network and Us Mob Writing Group.

She was the inaugural Torres Strait Islander curator for the 2023 Brisbane Writers Festival and is Editor of Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia edition published by Black Inc (2024).

Samantha is Visiting Fellow with the JZK Project (Japan-Zenadth Kes) to translate, return, refashion and republish 50 year old research materials from Japan to Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait). The project is funded by grants from the Australia Japan Foundation (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade), the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and a Discovery Project grant from the Australian Research Council.