Marion Taffe

Marion Taffe is a lifelong daydreamer. She was born in Melbourne, enjoyed a childhood on Magnetic Island in North Queensland and spent her teen years in her family's historic Ballarat home, which was open to the public. She studied Arts at ACU in allarat and rowed for Australia in the Under 23 World Championships. Rowing led Marion to a cadetship in journalism and a twenty-year career in media, working at newspapers and magazines in Ballarat, Townsville, Manchester, the Gold Coast and Melbourne, where she was national features and travel editor at mX for eight years. She studied Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT where she was named Creative Industries Student of the Year in her graduating year of 2023. Marion was runner-up in the Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Prize (non-fiction) in 2022 and a recipient of a Varuna Residential Fellowship in 2023.