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Katherine Brabon is an award-winning writer from Melbourne, Australia. Her debut novel, The Memory Artist, won The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award in 2016. The Shut Ins, won the People’s Choice Award at the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards in 2022. Body Friend was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the ALS Gold Medal. Cure, was shortlisted for the Christina Stead Award.
Her fifth book, Partum, will be published in December, 2026 by Ultimo Press (ANZ) and Book of the Month (US/Canada).
Her work has appeared in Vogue, Australian Book Review, The Australian Financial Review, The Saturday Paper, Island, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald, and she is a regular contributor to Melbourne’s Lindsay magazine. She has been a resident at Château de Lavigny Switzerland, Art Omi New York, the UNESCO Cities of Literature International Residency in Ljubljana, and received the Varuna Writer’s House Eleanor Dark Fellowship.
Katherine lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.