Gabriella Kelly-Davies has studied biography and history at the National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University, narrative non-fiction at Sydney University, creative writing at the University of Technology (Sydney), and is a doctoral student in biography at Sydney University. "Breaking through the pain barrier. The extraordinary life of Dr Michael J. Cousins", the creative component of her PhD, is the biography of Australian’s foremost pain medicine pioneer and former president of the International Association for the Study of Pain. Her dissertation, Choices, Choices, Choices: One biographer’s experience", explores many of the choices she is making while writing "Breaking through the pain barrier" and the views of biographers and literary scholars about these choices. Every month, Gabriella convenes a science and medicine roundtable for Biographers International Organization and she has published articles and given presentations on the complexity of writing science biography, narrative choices in biography, the changing world of biography, and writing about a living subject.
