AustLit

'Melissa Fagan is an Australian writer, surfer and PhD scholar within the Aberdeen-Curtin Alliance program. Her short fiction and nonfiction have won awards and been widely published in Australian literary journals. Her memoir What Will Be Worn (Transit Lounge, 2018) explores themes of emotional and material inheritance across five generations of women. Her PhD project, a collection of critical travel essays, seeks to position surfing and other forms of immersion in the intertidal zone as ways of seeing, experiencing, and bearing witness to coastal environments and cultures.' (Swamphen 9)