
Michelle Lesh
ABOUT
Michelle Lesh
Michelle Lesh, an international lawyer, has taught at the Melbourne Law School and the London School of Economics, worked at the United Nations and is a member of the International Bar Association War Crimes Committee. She has written for a variety of academic and non-academic publications. She was Mark Raphael Baker’s wife and is the mother of their daughter, Melila. Together with her step-father, Raimond Gaita, she edited Mark’s memoir, A Season of Death, published posthumously in 2024.
PROGRAM SESSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.