Photos by Robert Alexander Smith, 2018.

Matilda Dixon-Smith is a writer, editor, casual academic and bookseller living on unceded Gadigal land. She has a Masters of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing from The University of Melbourne (2013), and is an avid reader, writer and viewer. She is the author of Change-makers: The pin-up book of pioneers, troublemakers and radicals for Smith Street Books (2018).

Matilda has worked as an editor, a journalist, a lecturer and a children’s book specialist. She is currently working on long-term writing projects and raising her beautiful daughter.