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'Dancing Home is at times heartbreaking, sometimes mystical, often laugh-out-loud funny, and reads like a road movie cranked up to eleven. Paul Collis is a welcome and essential new voice in Australian writing.' Readings Monthly 'This story of one Aboriginal man who turns the inside of a cell - a site of ultimate colonial oppression and cultural genocide - into a site of emancipation of the mind is a powerful reminder of those who are not free, a metaphor for the nation as a jail still incarcerating its first peoples.' The Canberra Times 'Dancing Home is also a raw, powerful, authentic portrayal of the damage done to Indigenous people by policies past and present that have been inflicted on them.' ANZ LitLovers

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Paul Collis is a Barkindji man, born in Bourke in far western NSW on the Darling River. Paul worked in Newcastle for much of his young adult life in the areas of teaching and in Aboriginal community development positions. He has taught Aboriginal Studies to Indigenous inmates at the Worimi and Mount Penang juvenile detention centres and in Cessnock and Maitland prisons. Paul has a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Doctorate in Communications. He lives in Canberra and works as a Creative Writing academic at the University of Canberra. Dancing Home is his first novel and won the 2016 David Unaipon Award and the 2018 ACT Book of the Year Award.

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