Kathryn Heyman

Dr Kathryn Heyman is the author of seven novels as well as a memoir, a poetry collection and several dramas for stage and BBC radio. Her work has won numerous awards in Australia and the UK including the Arts Council of England Writers Award, the Wingate, the Hallam Poetry Prize and the Southern Arts Awards, and been nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Scottish Writer of the Year Award, the Edinburgh Fringe Critics’ Awards, the Kibble Prize, and the West Australian Premier’s Book Awards. Her plays for BBC Radio include the adaptation of her novel about a female bushranger, Captain Starlight’s Apprentice, which aired to an audience of over two million.

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Kathryn Heyman won the Copyright Agency’s Author Fellowship for her memoir Fury, which was also shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, nominated for the Folio International Prize, and is now in development as a feature film. Previously, she was the Writing Fellow at the University of Glasgow and the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Westminster College, Oxford. In 2011, she founded the Australian Writers Mentoring Program.