Sally Morgan was born in 1951 in Perth, Australia. She has a B.A. in Psychology from The University of Western Australia. She also has post-graduate diplomas from the Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University of Technology) in Counselling Psychology and Computing and Library Studies. She has written two adult books. My Place, her first book, was the Winner of the 1987 Australian Human Rights Award for Literature and an Order of Australia Book Prize in 1990. Wanamurraganya: The Story of Jack McPhee was her second published title. In addition, she has written children's books and plays. Sally has also established a reputation as one of Australia's best know Aboriginal… artist. She has works in public and private collections in Australia and the United States.