Peg Job has lived in Latin American and Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, and graduated from the University of New South Wales in 1989 with a PhD in English. She has been a columnist with the Canberra Times, a freelance reviewer and an adult education co-ordinator. Job has also contributed to numerous Australian newspapers and magazines and written poetry in Spanish.
She has written in the genres of literary criticism, human rights, longer fiction, poetry, travel writing, short stories and reviews.
She is the daughter-in-law of
Eena Job.