Grief, Ritual, Reverence

Melanie Cheng (The Burrow), Katia Ariel (Ferryman) and Gabriel Weston (Alive) talk about the things that make life worth living when faced with darkness.

Melanie Cheng is a writer and general practitioner. She was born in Adelaide, grew up in Hong Kong and now lives in Melbourne. Her debut collection of short stories, Australia Day, won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2016 and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction in 2018. Room for a Stranger, her highly acclaimed first novel, was published in 2019.

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