Dr Odette Kelada is a lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Her writing focuses on marginalised voices, gender studies and race, and has appeared in numerous publications including the International Journal of Intercultural Studies, Overland, Australian Cultural History Journal, Outskirts: Feminisms on the Edge, Journal for the Association of Studies in Australian Literature, and The Postcolonial Studies Journal. She has anglo and Egyptian heritage, and teaches in racial literacy and creative writing. Her novel Drawing Sybylla: The Real and Imagined Lives of Australian Writing Women won The Dorothy Hewett Award in 2016 and is out now through University of Western Australia Publishing.