Kathryn Heyman is the author of six novels, most recently Storm and Grace. She has won numerous awards including an Arts Council of England Writers Award, the Wingate and the Southern Arts Awards, and been nominated for the Orange Prize, the Scottish Writer of the Year Award, the Edinburgh Fringe Critics’ Awards, the Kibble Prize, and the West Australian Premier’s Book Awards. Her radio plays for BBC Radio include adaptations of her own work. In 2021, Allen & Unwin will publish Kathryn’s memoir Fury.

Kathryn has taught writing for many years, including serving Scottish Arts Council Writing Fellow for the University of Glasgow, and teaching fiction and poetry for the University of Oxford. From 2011 – 2013, she was the Senior Judge for the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, and an advisor to the awards team in 2016. As well as being the Program Director for Faber Writing Academy in Australia, Kathryn Heyman is the director of the Australian Writers Mentoring Program and is a Conjoint Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle.