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Melissa Mostyn is a writer, journalist and visual arts practitioner. Trained to postgraduate MA standard at Central Saint Martins in London, she is an arts and film critic for The Hearing Times and Disability Arts Online, and has managed visual arts projects with deaf people for over three years, including two summer art retreats at King's Wood in Kent and a quarterly magazine which she edited, The Lounge.
She also leads art gallery presentations across London and the South-East, including Tate Modern, Tate Britain, V&A, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Wallace Collection and Modern Art Oxford.
Prior to this, Melissa freelanced for several years as a published fashion journalist, writing for Vogue, The Independent, Esquire, and New Zealand Style and co-editing The Fashion Book, published by Phaidon Press in 1998. She was the founder editor of Deaf Arts UK, an in-house quarterly magazine reporting on the deaf arts activities of Shape, a leading British disability arts organisation.