Linda Wells

Linda Wells is of white settler descent. She is a teacher and writer. Linda lived in Central Australia for more than 30 years and worked as a teacher on desert communities as well as in Alice Springs. For over ten years Linda also ran a small business, conducting guided walking tours of Alice Springs. In 2024 she was awarded the NT Chief Minister’s Literary Award for non-fiction for her book Living in Tin as well as the Daisy Utemmorah Award for young adult fiction, along with her daughter Marly. Linda has a PhD in creative, post-colonial possibilities for writing Australian history.