This is the 12th post in our Author of the Week series.
Cate Kennedy was born in 1963 in England. At a young age she moved to Australia. She started writing as a teenager. She studied writing at the University of Canberra and it was there that she stopped writing stating that analysis takes all the fun out of it.
She resumed writing in her thirties while she was working as a librarian. She entered the Scarlet Stiletto short story prize run by the Sisters in Crime. She ended up winning and the Sisters in Crime suggested that she get back into writing. They ended up creating a new category which they named after her: The Cate Kennedy Award for Best New Talent.
She has written a number of short stories which have been published in a number of different publications. In 2001 she published her first book which was a collection of poems. This was followed by short story collections and a memoir.
In 2009 she published her first novel entitled The World Beneath.
To learn more about Cate Kennedy visit Scribe publications and Readings.com
