Drusilla Modjeska (born 1946[citation needed]) is a contemporary Australian writer and editor.
[1] She studied for an undergraduate degree at the Australian National University before completing a PhD in history at the University of New South Wales which was published as Exiles at Home: Australian Women Writers 1925–1945 (1981).
[citation needed] Modjeska's writing often explores the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction.
She has also edited several volumes of stories, poems and essays, including the work of Lesbia Harford and a 'Focus on Papua New Guinea' issue for the literary magazine Meanjin.
[2] In 2006, Modjeska was a senior research fellow at the University of Sydney, "investigating the interplay of race, gender and the arts in post-colonial Papua New Guinea".