Iola MathewsIola Mathews OAM (nee Hack) is the great-great-granddaughter of John Barton Hack. She has a degree in history from Melbourne University and was a journalist with the Age newspaper for many years and the author of How to Use the Media in ustralia (Penguin, 1991). She later worked at the Australian Council for Trade Unions as an industrial officer and advocate. More recently she wrote a memoir, My Mother, My Writing and Me (Michelle Anderson Publishing, 2009) and established writers' studios in the National Trust property Glenfern in East St Kilda. She lives in Melbourne with her husband Dr Race Mathews. Read More Read Less