Melinda Smith grew up in Orange, NSW and has lived in Canberra since 1989.  She has published three books of poetry with Ginninderra Press.  Her poems have appeared in magazines, newspapers and anthologies both in Australia and overseas, and have also been set to music, hung on gallery walls and appeared on ACTION buses.She won the David Campbell prize in 2006 and in 2011 she received an artsACT New Projects Grant to complete her third book.  She performs her poetry at the Poetry at the Gods readings series, blogs at www.melindasmith.wordpress.com and tweets as @MelindaLSmith,