Yvette Henry Holt is an Australian literary executive, multi-award-winning contemporary Australian Aboriginal poet, essayist, researcher and editor. She heralds from the Bidjara, Yiman and Wakaman nations of Queensland.
The youngest child born to prominent Queensland Elder, Albert Holt and Marlene (née Henry) Holt, Yvette came to poetic prominence with her first award-winning collection of poetry Anonymous Premonition in 2008. Between 2009-2021 Holt lived and worked in Central Australia among the Central and Western Arrernte peoples of Hermansburg and Alice Springs.
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