Tess Scholfield-Peters is a writer and academic currently based at the University of Technology Sydney, where she teaches across the Creative Writing and Communications programs. Tess began her writing career in community journalism, helping to start the independent newspaper Urban Village based out of Surry Hills. There she cultivated a love of sharing stories, life writing and print publishing.

She completed her Honours in Creative Writing at UTS and began her Doctorate in Creative Arts the following year. Her research is focused on life writing, creative non-fiction, memory and empathy studies, and storytelling through archive material.

Her first book is titled Dear Mutzi: a story of love, escape and finding the forgotten, published by the National Library of Australia Publishing.