Tess Scholfield-Peters is a writer and academic currently based at the University of Technology Sydney, where she teaches across the Creative Writing and Communications programs. Tess began her writing career in community journalism, helping to start the independent newspaper Urban Village based out of Surry Hills. There she cultivated a love of sharing stories, life writing and print publishing.
She completed her Honours in Creative Writing at UTS and began her Doctorate in Creative Arts the following year. Her research is focused on life writing, creative non-fiction, memory and empathy studies, and storytelling through archive material.
Tess has won an international prize for her academic research as well as a National Library of Australia summer scholarship for her research project: ‘From Berlin to the Bush: Jewish Youth in Rural Australia 1939’. Her PhD titled For Those Who Cannot Speak: new and ethical expressions of Holocaust remembrance by the third generation would become her first book, a work of narrative nonfiction titled Dear Mutzi: a story of love, escape and finding the forgotten which was published by the National Library of Australia Publishing in June 2024.
Tess lives and works in Sydney-Eora and is working on her second book.
