Draft:Esther Anatolitis

Esther Anatolitis (born 21 April 1976 in Sydney) is an Australian arts leader and civic advocate. She is editor of Meanjin, a member of the National Gallery of Australia Governing Council,  an Australian Republic Movement VIC Branch Councillor, Honorary Associate Professor at RMIT University, and director of Test Pattern. She is a Melbourne-based writer, commentator and broadcaster. In 2024 she was elected Co-Chair of the Australian Republic Movement.

Anatolitis is an alumna of Sydney Girls High School, UNSW and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation's graduate program. She was a founder of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, the Emerging Writers' Festival, and is a former CEO of National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters Council, Express Media, SYN Media, Melbourne Fringe Festival, and National Association for the Visual Arts, where she designed and presented Australia's first arts advocacy training program. With her consultancy Test Pattern Anatolitis wrote the ten-year strategy for Kingston Arts Precinct, which was recognised with a 40-year funding commitment.

Anatolitis has won awards including Melbourne Award for Contribution to Profile and AFR Women of Influence shortlist, and is the author of books, chapters and articles. Her book Place, Practice, Politics was published in 2021 and her collection Essays that Changed Australia is published in late 2024.