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Melanie Cheng

Melanie Cheng
​Melanie Cheng is a writer and general practitioner based in Melbourne. Her debut short-story collection, Australia Day, won the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction. Her debut novel, Room for a Stranger, was shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards and longlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Award. Her writing has appeared in The Age, The Weekend Australian, SBS Online, The Big Issue, Griffith Review and Meanjin, among others.​


When One Doctor-Turned-Novelist Reads Another

Dr. Melanie Cheng Revisits the Fiction of Jacinta Halloran
August 11, 2020  By Melanie Cheng
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