Kate Ryan is a widely published and commended writer of adult fiction and non-fiction and children’s picture books.

Her work has appeared in publications including New Australian Writing, The Sleepers Almanac, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, The Griffith Review and Best Australian Stories.

Her children’s picture books were published by Penguin and Lothian.

She won the Writers Prize in the 2015 Melbourne Prize for Literature and the novella category in the 2017 Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards.

Kate’s debut novel, The Golden Book, was published by Scribe in 2021. She is an Adjunct Research Fellow at La Trobe University where she completed her PhD in 2013.

Photo by Susan Gordon-Brown.