Marion May Campbell

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Marion May Campbell (b. 1948) is a contemporary Australian novelist and academic.

Marion Campbell earned a BA in French Literature at the University of New South Wales and the University of Western Australia. She then pursued post-graduate study at Aix en Provence, writing a dissertation on the work of Stéphane Mallarmé. Her four published novels explore professional and personal relationships between women and literary theoretical concerns, often in a non-standard 'experimental' writing style. Her second novel, Not being Miriam, received the Western Australian Literary Week Award in 1988. For the stage, the musical theatre piece Dr Memory in the Dream House was performed in 1990 and an adaption of Not Being Miriam entitled Ariadne's Understudies in 1991. She currently coordinates the creative writing program at the University of Melbourne.