Melanie Pryor is a Creative Writing PhD candidate whose thesis is currently under examination. Her research project, comprised of a travel memoir entitled Salt Marks, and an accompanying critical exegesis, examines gender, embodiment and wildness in contemporary memoirs about place. Melanie teaches in Creative Writing and English Literature, and is a member of Flinders University's Life Narrative Research Group.

Melanie is a Co-Founder of The Hearth, an Adelaide-based creative readings event. Her personal essays and literary fiction have been published in Meanjin, Overland, Southerly, and Lip, and her academic writing in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.