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Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) Director Lisa Dempster is a lifelong bookworm and champion of the arts. Before directing the MWF, she was the Director/CEO of the Emerging Writers’ Festival and founder of its innovative online programming arm.
In 2012 she curated an exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Future Bookshop, which explored how Australians will be reading, writing and publishing in the future, and undertook an Asialink residency with the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali.
