Ramona Koval

Ramona Koval is a writer, editor and broadcaster. She is the host of The Monthly’s ‘The Monthly Book’ and was previously the host of ‘The Book Show’ on ABC Radio National, heard weekdays across Australia, and podcast globally. She makes docmentary features for radio, and has written newspaper features and columns on issues of the day. Transcripts of her interviews have been published in international newspapers, magazines, and in digital form. She has been invited to interview writers at literary festivals in Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Montreal, Berlin, and all over Australia.

She is the author of a novel, Samovar, and four books of non-fiction, including a Jewish cookbook. She has worked as an academic at RMIT University and the University of Melbourne, and before that as a microbiologist and geneticist.