Kate Jennings

Kate Jennings is a poet, essayist, short-story writer and novelist. Both her novels, Snake and Moral Hazard, were New York Times Notable Books of the Year.

She has won the ALS Gold Medal, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Adelaide Festival fiction prize. Born in rural New South Wales, she has lived in New York since 1979. Her most recent books are Stanley and Sophie, Quarterly Essay 32: American Revolution and Trouble: Evolution of a Radical, Selected Writings 1970-2010.

Hilary McPhee was a founding director of McPhee Gribble Publishers and a Chair of the Australia Council for the Arts, the inaugural Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and a founding director of New Matilda.com.

In recent years she has been living in the Middle East and Italy writing a book and articles about the region. She has returned to Melbourne and her selection of new Australian writing, Wordlines, was published last year. She has recently edited and contextualised the diaries of Tim Burstall from the early 1950s which MUP published in February and is now working on a companion volume to Other People’s Words.