Winch's first novel - Swallow the Air (2006) - was on the HSC curriculum for Standard and Advanced English from 2009 to 2019. Winch was an ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Project and is currently ambassador for Children's Ground. She was chosen for the 2008-2009 Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative in which she was partnered with Nigerian writer and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. It was subsequently published in 2006 by UQP. She studied for a Bachelor of Arts, Indigenous Studies at Ginibi College, Southern Cross University, but left after the manuscript for her first book won the David Unaipon Award in 2004. At 17, Winch left home to travel across Australia. She is of Wiradjuri and English heritage. Tara June Winch was born in Wollongong in 1983.
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