Photos by Robert Alexander Smith, 2018.

Matilda Dixon-Smith is a freelance journalist, author, editor and casual academic from Melbourne. She has a Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing from The University of Melbourne (2013), and is an avid reader, writer and viewer. She teaches at The University of Melbourne and Deakin University, and is the author of Change-makers: The pin-up book of pioneers, troublemakers and radicals for Smith Street Books (2018).

Matilda has worked in-house and as a freelancer for a wide range of organisations: from trade publishing houses to online news websites, and from Melbourne city guides to top-tier law firms. She is an experienced editor and proofreader, who has worked on fiction and non-fiction lists for several Australian publishers.

Matilda writes about news and current affairs, politics, health and welfare issues, and arts and entertainment. She produces features and reportage, interviews, opinion/analysis, criticism, creative non-fiction and fiction. She is currently lecturing, working on her long-term writing projects and reading as much as she can. She tweets, mostly in alarming deluges, from @mdixonsmith.