Angelina Hurley is a writer from Brisbane of Gooreng Gooreng and Mununjali descent on her father’s side (renowned Aboriginal visual artist Ron Hurley) and Birriah and Gamilaraay descent on her mother’s side. With over thirty-five years of experience in First Nations arts, education and community cultural development, her writing debuted with the short film Aunty Maggie and the Womba Wakgun (2009). Awarded the 2011 American-Australian Fulbright Indigenous Scholar, she studied at NYU’s Tisch School of Arts.

She recently submitted her PhD at Griffith University Film School, writing a set of scripts for an Aboriginal comedy television series Reconciliation Rescue and an exegesis titled Reconciliation Rescue: An Original Blak Comedy Series and Aboriginal Cultural Perspectives on Humour. Her work spans various mediums, including short films, documentaries, and numerous journals, magazines, and online publications. She is now the Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Griffith University Creative Arts Research Institute.