Noè Harsel is a writer, cultural producer and arts professional working across fiction, essays, podcasting and cultural leadership. She is the author of two novels represented by literary agency Key People Literary Management.

She is Senior Policy Advisor and Senior Lecturer (Practice) with the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University and was the Museum Director & CEO at The Jewish Museum of Australia. She is a Board member of the Wheeler Centre and was Chair of Writers Victoria. She is the creator and host of Live Write, an online writers’ group, and Why Write, a podcast about the writing process. Noè co-created and hosts the SBS podcast Like Us, a discussion about race, identity and culture in Australia. She also writes All the Things, a Substack on writing, art and culture.

Noé’s essays and writing have appeared in Ruptured: Jewish Women in Australia Reflect on Life Post-October 7 (LJLA, 2025), The Jewish Independent and elsewhere.  Her earlier writing includes articles in the Australian Film Institute magazine, Broadsheet and Melbourne Magazine, among others.

As a cultural producer, Noè has directed and produced exhibitions including CHAGALL (2023), MIRKA (2021) and HELMUT NEWTON: In Focus (2022) at the Jewish Museum of Australia, as well as commissioning a Mirka Mora exhibition tram across the City of Melbourne. She has spoken at events nationally, including in conversations with The Hon Julia Gillard AC, Melanie Cheng and Alice Zaslavsky, and delivered talks on writing, cultural identity and creative leadership.

She has also worked at many leading organisations, including as Co-Director of Melbourne Jewish Book Week, consultant at The Stella Prize and Development Manager with Monash University.

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