Katherine Brabon

Katherine Brabon's debut novel The Memory Artist won the The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award (Allen & Unwin, 2016), was shortlisted in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and longlisted in the Indie Book Awards. She was co-winner of the 2019 David Harold Tribe Prize from The University of Sydney for her short fiction, and a runner-up in the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize in 2020. Katherine was an Ambassador at the Melbourne Emerging Writer's Festival in 2019 and enjoys an active role in Australia's literary community. Katherine's writing has appeared in The Age/Sydney Morning Herald, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, The Lifted Brow, Island magazine, Southerly and she is a regular contributor to Lindsay magazine. She has received grants from the Australia Council and Creative Victoria, and residencies at Chateau Lavigny, Art Omi and the UNESCO Cities of Literature International Residency in Ljubljana.