Matt Garrick is an award-winning writer and journalist currently based in Darwin. Formerly features editor at the NT News, he has lived and worked extensively in East Arnhem Land, for the ABC, as a freelancer and as the editor of the local paper, the Arafura Times. He's now a full-time journalist at ABC Darwin. Garrick has been following Yothu Yindi's story since his dad took him to see the band play in Sydney's Centennial Park as a kid. He has written about the band extensively, formed close working relationships with members and their families and has worked as the band's media coordinator and official biographer. Writing in the Sand is his first book.