Chelinay Gates is a Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a practitioner of Hypnosis and Esoteric Acupuncture, as well as a professional artist and Aboriginal author. Known for her light-filled, impressionist works, Chelinay has won numerous prizes and was awarded “Female Artist of the Year” in Australia in 1990. She writes for film, television and theatre and her latest book, Lucky-Child: the secret (Tellwell Talent, 2019) was winner of the prestigious 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Award (for fiction and best first novel).

Inspired by her father and other indigenous elders, she has also been involved in issues of social justice, community services and protection of sacred sites. For more information, see: www.lucky-child.com.au

Interview with Jessica Strutt on ABC Radio

The story of a book that came to be because of one woman's determination and chance meetings with the right people at the right time.

Lucky-Child, The Secret, by Aboriginal author and artist Chelinay Gates is a book that was meant to be.