Jessie Tu

Jessie Tu trained as a classical violinist for more than 15 years. She has taught music at many prestigious Australian schools, refugee camps in the Middle East, volunteered with AUSAID in The Solomon Islands, won residencies in the USA, and now works as a journalist at Women’s Agenda and book critic for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. Tu has won several poetry and writing awards and her first book of poetry was released in 2018. A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing is her first novel.