Gemma Mahadeo
Gemma Mahadeo is a London-born Melbourne-based writer and occasional musician.

Gemma Mahadeo

writer & occasional musician/performer

About Me

Gemma Mahadeo is a Melbourne-based writer and musician. Her family emigrated from England to Australia in 1987. Gemma Mahadeo came to Australia from the UK in 1987. She is a Melbourne-based writer and musician who has performed in the disability troupe ‘Quippings’. Her work has appeared in Cordite, Going Down Swinging, Island (online), Peril, Plumwood Mountain, Rabbit, The Suburban Review, and Tincture.

In 2018, she completed a Women Writers of Colour commission to write three video game ekphrastic poems on the theme of ‘collaboration’ for Writers Victoria’s April-May membership magazine. She currently reviews Victorian beer for Froth, is reviews editor for the Melbourne Spoken Word website, is a Women’s Melbourne Network committee member, and recently appeared on conference and festival panels at Freeplay & Melbourne’s Emerging Writers’ Festival.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts (University of Melbourne)

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