Melissa Ashley

Dr Melissa Ashley is a fiction writer, poet and academic who teaches creative writing workshops at the University of Queensland. Melissa authored the historical fiction work, The Birdman’s Wife (Affirm Press, 2016), based on the incredible life of nineteenth-century illustrator, Elizabeth Gould, who was also the wife of John Gould, the ‘father’ of Australian ornithology. Melissa has published papers and articles in Hecate, Text Journal of Creative Writing, Double Dialogues, The Age (Spectrum), The Lifted Brow and others. Her current project explores the life and writing of a seventeenth-century French author of fairy tales.

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