Seth Robinson
Seth Robinson is an award-winning writer, producer, and academic based in Naarm/Melbourne.
He is the author of Welcome to Bellevue (2020), the first full-length novel from Grattan Street Press. His work has featured widely, in publications such as The Saturday Paper, Kill Your Darlings, Aurealis Magazine, TEXT, Meniscus, The Ultimo Prize Anthology, and The Mascara Literary Review.
Seth is a lover of the weird and the wonderful. His work plays in the space between literary, speculative, and commercial fiction. He’s interested in how imagined worlds hold up a mirror to our own, and offer opportunities not only to critique, but to imagine solutions to the biggest, scariest problems that we face as a society.
As an academic, he has an interest in non-traditional research outputs, particularly in considering the relationship between research and its translation, creative practice, the applied humanities, and public engagement. In 2024 he was the winner of 'The Writing Prize', for Killing Murray Darling, a short story that translated the research of Dr Anna Kosovac and interrogated the media's responsibilities in reporting on climate change. He lectures in Creative Practice and Public Humanities at the University of Melbourne.
Seth is the Creative Producer for the Melbourne Public Humanities Initiative (MPHI), which runs a calendar of events including the Being Human Festival, and works to translate humanities research into compelling stories and engagement activities. He is the creator of Unfolded, a podcast which he co-hosts with novelist, historian and activist, Tony Birch. Unfolded pairs audio-fictions with in-depth author interviews. He has previously worked on podcasts such as the Australian Podcast Award-winning Women are the Business, in content strategy and communications, as a radio producer, and as a music journalist.