Geraldine Mellet

Geraldine Mellet's love of story began in childhood with a hammock and a never-ending tower of books and has been the through-line in her life ever since. After a degree in French and Japanese and a sideline in Bunraku puppetry, Geraldine was specacularly unemployable until she found her happy place in broadcast journalism. In addition to twenty-five years in radio and television at the ABC, story was also central to her work as a disability rights advocate and coordinator for both the Every Australian Counts campaign for the NDIS and The Lives We Lead social media project.

She has also co-written Whose Hand is This, the non-fiction account of how a WA nurse and her husband reinvented their lives after a severe cerebral stroke, as well as being a newspaper columnist and writer of children's TV drama. She lives, reads and writes on Whadjuk Noongar land in Perth, WA.

Photographer credit: Jason Thomas