Karys McEwen

Karys McEwen is a school librarian, bookseller, vice president of the Victorian branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia, and education advisor for the Melbourne Writers Festival. She is passionate about the role libraries and literature can play in the wellbeing of young people, and she writes the Substack newsletter I Read A Lot. She has published two middle grade novels with Text Publishing, All the Little Tricky Things (2022) and The Paperbark Tree Committee (2025).