I am currently the Festival Director of Melbourne Writers Festival. I’m also Secretary of the Board of Overland literary journal and a member of the Custodial Committee of the Kat Muscat Fellowship.

I was Head of Programming at the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas from 2020-24. I have also worked as Program Manager and a Board member of the Feminist Writers Festival, Prize Manager of the Stella Prize, and Online Editor of Kill Your Darlings journal. I’m a member of the City of Port Phillip’s Cultural Development Fund Reference Committee, and have been a peer assessor for Creative Victoria grant applications. I was a regular columnist for Books+Publishing magazine in 2020, writing on the Australian publishing industry.

I co-founded Sisteria, a podcast about women and non-binary creatives’ experiences as creators and consumers of arts and culture. From 2016-2019, I co-hosted Sisteria with Stephanie Van Schilt, interviewing guests including Hannah Kent, Mojo Juju, Julie Koh, Candy Bowers, and Evelyn Ida Morris.

I have been a member of the Program Advisory Committee for RMIT University’s Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing), co-edited the Melbourne City of Literature’s Reading Victoria project, was a Creative Producer with the Emerging Writers’ Festival, and judged the Words & Ideas category of the Melbourne Fringe Festival awards. I was a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow, was selected for the Melbourne Writers Festival’s 30 Under 30 program in 2015, and was longlisted for the inaugural Richell Prize.

My writing has been published by the Guardian, Overland, Right Now, The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, Junkee, Archer, Australian Poetry Journal, Going Down Swinging, Broadsheet Melbourne, the Review of Australian Fiction, The Big Issue and The Victorian Writer, among others. I have reviewed books for 3RRR Breakfasters, and has been a guest on various radio programs including ABC Melbourne Afternoons, ABC Sydney Afternoons, ABC Radio National’s Books & Arts, 3RRR’s Multi-Storied and 2SER’s Final Draft.

I have hosted events, given readings, appeared on panels or taught workshops at the Melbourne Writers Festival, Sydney Writers’ Festival, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Small Press Network’s Independent Publishing Conference, National Young Writers’ Festival, Emerging Writers’ Festival, Digital Writers’ Festival, and at events run by Arts Centre Melbourne, City of Melbourne, Writers Victoria, Editors Victoria and Express Media.

I have guest lectured on topics including writing, publishing, editing and gender at the University of Melbourne, RMIT University, Swinburne University of Technology and Victoria University.

I hold a Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) with honours from RMIT University, and a Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing from the University of Melbourne, for which my thesis supervisor was Maria Tumarkin. I live in Narrm (Melbourne).

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Photo: Brett Walker
Website: Studio Sometimes

I live and work on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation and pay my respects to their Elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.