Melanie is a Brisbane-based writer, editor, academic and occasional actor. She is a graduate of QUT’s nationally acclaimed acting program and has a Doctorate in Creative Writing. In 2018, she won the Qld Literary Awards Glendower for an Emerging Writer for her manuscript 'Garrison Town', which was published as Meet Me at Lennon’s by UQP in 2019. Meet Me at Lennon's was shortlisted for the 2020 Qld Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance and the 2020 Courier-Mail’s People Choice Award.

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.