Melanie is multi-disciplinary creative with interests across writing, photography, painting, music, and film who lives and works on Wurundjeri country. She began her career in the music industry as a lyricist and topliner, with highlights including penning a song that charted in the top twenty, winning an independent music award, and writing music for film and television.

Aside from lyrics, Melanie has pursued other forms of writing and has had a short poetry collection published in an online literary magazine. She studied creative writing and literature at The University of Melbourne, then engaged further in a fiction writing course taught by Hannah Kent and Rebecca Stanford at Kill Your Darlings. She was selected for the 2022 Writing a Novel program with Emily Bitto and Sophie Cunningham at Faber Writing Academy where she worked on a fiction novel, Bellyheart, and further developed this project as a 2023 Wheeler Centre hot desk fellow. Melanie was selected for 2023 Kill Your Darlings mentorship with poet Omar Sakr where she worked on a verse novel titled Nacre. This project was also selected for a 2024 Varuna Masterclass with Felicity Plunkett.