Currently completing a grad dip in library and information management at RMIT, Amanda is managing editor of the gateway websites Creative Economy (www.creative.org.au), hosted by CCI, and Australian Policy Online (www.apo.org.au), hosted by the Swinburne University's ISR. Following an arts degree (with honours) at the University of Melbourne, Amanda has worked in various roles in the literary industry including manager of the Literature Program at the Melbourne University's Asialink Centre, program manager at the Victorian Writers Centre, co-ordinator of the Melbourne Festival of Poetry and running her own Asian Studies bookstore. Her publications include a study of the Asian book industry and its potential as a market for Australian books, commissioned by RMIT/Common Ground.