Neil Jillet holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney. He began work as a journalist in 1952 and has been the Film and Dance Critic, Arts Editor and South-East Asia correspondent for the Age and Theatre Critic for the Melbourne Herald (1974-1978). He has written a radio play, 'Miss Bradford and the Little Monsters' (1991) and has contributed to numerous Australian and international newspapers and magazines.
Jillett has written in the genres of literary criticism, reviews, fiction, Asian Studies, cinema and theatre.