Michelle Law

In February 2018, Law tweeted about the inappropriateness of "Wonton of Laughs", a show in the BrisAsia Festival. The show's promotional poster appeared to depict Asian comedians floating in a bowl of wonton soup.

Her 2017 play, Single Asian Female, a comedy about a Chinese-Australian family, was considered to be groundbreaking in Australian theatre, as it featured three Chinese-Australian women in leading roles. It opened at Brisbane's Roundhouse Theatre for La Boite in February 2017, and at Sydney’s Belvoir St Theatre in February 2018.

In August 2017, Law was commissioned by SBS and Screen Australia to co-write a comedy drama series, Homecoming Queens. Law co-wrote the semi-autobiographical series with Chloë Reeson, it focuses on two friends with chronic illness living in Queensland. It premiered on SBS OnDemand in April 2018, with Law playing the part of "Michelle Low" and Liv Hewson playing the part of Chloë Reeson.

She has previously worked at Brisbane's Avid Reader bookshop. In June 2017, Men’s Rights Activists targeted the bookshop with online downvoting, because it shared news about Clementine Ford's second book. Michelle and her brother Ben advocated for the bookshop, which effectively combated the downvotes by garnering hundreds of positive five-star reviews from the bookshop's supporters.

In October 2017, one of her tweets was featured in a Sydney Morning Herald article, decrying the online abuse from HSC students towards poet Ellen van Neerven.

In November 2017, she tweeted to the Guardian's "Australian Bird of the Year" poll with an Australian version of the “Nothing but respect for my president” meme.

She has been portrayed by actress Vivian Wei in the comedy TV series The Family Law (2016-2017).

Her 2015 guest review of Charlotte's Web for Going Down Swinging's "The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge" expanded on her earlier Gilmore Girls articles in The Lifted Brow.

She has written for The Sydney Morning Herald on misogynist "bro culture" perpetuated by Melbourne University Liberal Club members (August 2014), selfie etiquette (September 2014), the physicality of hands (October 2015), and writers engaging in marketing (June 2017).

Law wrote the adolescent-themed short film Bloomers (2013), which was completed through successful crowdfunding and Screen Australia's Short Film Completion Fund.

In 2013, she received funding towards her writing career through the Australia Council's ArtStart program. In 2015, she was commissioned to write a Brisbane-themed poem for the Brisbane Poetry Map. In 2016, she won one of the Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards at the Queensland Literary Awards.

She has written for the Griffith Review on the nuances of romantic relationships (2013's Once Upon a Time in Oz), on dual cultural identity (2015), and sibling conversations (2017).

Law presented a talk on alopecia and "A bald woman's guide to survival" at the Empowerment-themed TEDxSouthBankWomen event, in December 2012. She presented on the topic of co-authorship with her brother Benjamin Law, as part of the Literary Friendship series at the 2014 Sydney Writers' Festival.

In April 2012, Law was selected as part of Youth Arts Queensland's JUMP Mentoring Program. She won an AWGIE in 2012 in the Interactive Media category, for her screenwriting on SLiDE. She was a runner-up in the Written Word Category in the 2013 Spirit of Youth Awards (SOYA 365).

Law has written for Seizure, Meanjin (2012), Screen Education (June 2014), Peril: An Asian-Australian Journal (December 2015), Good Weekend and Frankie (2017).

She has written for The Lifted Brow on travel and loneliness (January 2010), teachability of MasterChef (October 2011), the nuances of Game of Thrones (December 2011), the continued appeal of The Golden Girls (October 2012), longevity of reality television (December 2012), the possibilities of musical theatre (February 2013), bookish television characters (September 2013), interviewed writer Margo Lanagan (September 2013), the lack of onscreen depictions of unsexy sex (February 2014), and expectations around being an adult (March 2015).