Jessica Yu is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne. In 2015, she was selected as one of Melbourne Writers’ Festival’s 30 under 30. Her writing has been published in The Best Australian Poems, Overland, Australian Poetry Journal, Award Winning Australian Writing, The Saturday Paper and more. She has received a 2016-7 Royal Over-Seas League Arts Travel Scholarship to complete a fellowship and present her work with Edinburgh Art Festival 2017, a Glenfern Fellowship and a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship.
