Melanie is a Brisbane-based writer, editor, academic and occasional actor. She is a graduate of QUT’s acting program and has a Doctorate in Creative Writing. In 2018, she she won the Queensland Literary Awards Glendower Award for an Emerging Writer for her manuscript Garrison Town, which was published as Meet Me at Lennon's (UQP) in 2019.
Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including Kill Your Darlings, Overland, Arena Magazine, Griffith Review and Hecate, and her short fiction has won or been shortlisted for various literary awards.
She was Artistic Director of Reality Bites Festival from 2012 – 2014. In 2013 she realised a long-held ambition to play Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. She once appeared on the ABC's The Einstein Factor based on her extensive and obsessive knowledge of all things Vivien Leigh. Her hobbies include fussing over her tuxedo cat Moosha and her growing collection of indoor plants.