In 2013 Ali Cobby Eckermann won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Book of the Year for her second verse novel, Ruby Moonlight, a massacre story. At the time she was in Ireland, as an Australian Poetry Ambassador. In 2014 she attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her memoir, Too Afraid To Cry, was published in New Delhi India in 2015, on her way to Jaipur Literature Festival.