Debbie Lee is Festival Director, Melbourne Jewish Book Week. She has worked in the publishing industry for over 30 years, primarily with academic publishers such as Cambridge University Press, UNSW Press and Elsevier. More recently she has been instrumental in building the profile of ‘indie authors’, and has convened the Indie Publishing Forum and the Small Press Network annual conference, as well as presenting on the independent publishing revolution at various writers festivals including Byron Bay, Adelaide and Perth. She is the new owner of boutique publishing house, Ginninderra Press.