Natalie Harkin

Biography

Associate Professor Natalie Harkin (Narungga) is a poet and Research Fellow with the Critical Indigenous Studies team at Flinders University. Her research centres on Aboriginal women’s domestic service and labour history and Indigenous Living-Legacy / Memory Story archiving innovations for our time. She is committed to archival justice and is a member of the inaugural State Records/State Library of  South Australia’s Aboriginal Reference Group, the national Indigenous Archives Collective, and the national First Nations Working Party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, ANU. Her words have been installed and projected in mixed-media exhibitions, including a decade long creative-arts research collaboration with the Unbound Collective. She is widely published, and her manuscripts include Dirty Words (Cordite Books, 2015), Archival-poetics (Vagabond Press, 2019), and APRON-SORROW / SOVEREIGN-TEA (Wakefield Press, 2025).