Melinda Jewell

Melinda Jewell holds a PhD in Australian literature and has worked for a decade in the Writing & Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University as the postgraduate advisor. She has also worked as a thesis editor and as a research assistant on a number of W&SRC projects, including one on world literature and another on the benefits of people living in retirement homes participating in creative writing workshops. In her spare time, she loves reading fiction of any kind and gardening.