In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Tim Dobbyn chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Black, White + Colour: A Biography of Mervyn Bishop Australia’s First Indigenous Professional Photographer.

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Joshua Kendall chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Trudeau & Doonesbury: The Cartoonist Who Turned the News into Art.

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr James Bailey chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Nigel Cameron chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Dr Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Kathryn Heyman chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting her memoir Fury and seventh novel, Circle of Wonders.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Jeffrey Meyers chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting Parallel Lives: From Freud and Mann to Arbus and Plath.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the literary critic Adam Plunkett chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry.

Picture a candlelit chamber in Elizabethan England: a woman bends over a sheet of parchment, quill in hand. Outside, crowds cheer a Shakespeare play at the Globe, but she writes in quiet defiance. It’s a side of the Renaissance literary world we rarely hear about: women putting quill to paper, bold, creative, determined, yet most are invisible and voiceless in the historical record.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, one of Australia’s most celebrated literary figures, Robert Dessaix chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting Chameleon: A Memoir of Art, Travel, Ideas and Love, which was shortlisted for the 2026 National Biography Award.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the award-winning playwright and author S. Shakthidharan, who is known as Shakthi, chats with me about his choices while crafting, Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath, which was shortlisted for the 2026 National Biography Award.