Elly Varrenti is an Australian columnist, freelance writer, teacher, actress and broadcaster.
[1] As an actress and singer she has performed with the Melbourne Theatre Company, Playbox Theatre, La Mama, Theatreworks and ABC Radio National.
[4] In 2008 Penguin Books published her memoir This Is Not My Beautiful Life[5][6] and a short story in the anthology How We Met.
[7][8] Affirm Press published Ms Varrenti's story, Seriously funny, in the anthology of women’s writing, She’s Having a Laugh[9][10][11] in 2015.
As a freelance writer and columnist she has contributed to The Age, The Australian, The Australian Women’s Weekly, Mamamia,[12] Hoopla, Daily Life, The Good Weekend, The Australian Education Union, The Big Issue and Daily Review.