MsMesh Tennakoon
(She/Her)
Graduate Researcher
Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts
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- Graduate ResearcherFaculty 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 ResearcherDeakin University, Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Sessional Tutor - MarkingDeakin, Australia1 Aug 2025 - 30 Mar 2026
- Research AssistantDeakin University, Burwood, Australia30 Sep 2025 - present
DEGREES
- Master of Arts (Writing & Literature)Deakin University, Burwood, Australia
- Bachelor of LawsMonash 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