Kathielyn Job grew up near Dubbo, NSW, went to a Sydney boarding school, and spent some time in a small mining town in Pennsylvania, USA. She was educated at the Universities of New South Wales and New England. As well as writing poetry, she has worked as a freelance editor and has conducted courses and workshops in creative writing in the Central and Far West of New South Wales. Her first collection of poetry, Now, the Melaleuca (publ. 1995 in Outskirts), was written while she lived in Dubbo.
