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Lawyer and non-fiction author.

Madeline Gleeson holds a Master in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland (completed on the John Monash scholarship), a Bachelor in International Studies and Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours from the University of New South Wales, and a Diploma of Political Studies from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Aix en Provence, France. She has worked with the Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNHCR, and the International Catholic Migration Commission in Geneva, with the Jesuit Refugee Service in Cambodia, and has human rights and refugee experience in South Africa and Indonesia.

In 2017, her non-fiction Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru was longlisted for the Stella Prize, and shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Multicultural NSW Award, the ABIA Award for Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year, and the Colin Roderick Award.

Source: The Stella Prize.