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MsMesh Tennakoon

(She/Her)

Graduate Researcher

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts

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  • Graduate Researcher
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Mesh Tennakoon is a fiction writer and PhD candidate in creative writing. Her research project concerns recalibrating selected Jātakas, the past-life stories of Buddha Gotama. Her work has been published in Meanjin, Going Down Swinging, Island Magazine and Scratchthat and Mesh's MA creative artefact was published in the Anthology of Deakin's 2024 Postgraduate Prize for Writing.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Graduate Researcher
    Deakin University, Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts

MEDIA

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Sessional Tutor - Marking
    Deakin, Australia1 Aug 2025 - 30 Mar 2026
  • Research Assistant
    Deakin University, Burwood, Australia30 Sep 2025 - present

DEGREES

  • Master of Arts (Writing & Literature)
    Deakin University, Burwood, Australia
  • Bachelor of Laws
    Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
  • Bachelor of Science (Honours)
    Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Creative arts and writing

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Communication and Creative Arts