Kate Mildenhall
Kate Mildenhall is the author of Skylarking, The Mother Fault, The Hummingbird Effect, and her first picture book, To Stir With Love.
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Kate Mildenhall
Kate Mildenhall is an author, writing teacher, and podcaster. Her debut novel, Skylarking, was longlisted for Debut Fiction in The Indie Book Awards 2017 and the 2017 Voss Literary Award. Her second novel, The Mother Fault, was longlisted for the 2021 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2021 Aurealis Science Fiction Novel of the Year. Her latest novel, The Hummingbird Effect (2023), was shortlisted for the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year and longlisted for the Stella Prize and the Indie Book Awards Fiction 2024.
Kate has been awarded residencies at Varuna, the Writers House, Bundanon Trust, and the Michael King Writers Centre in Aotearoa. A regular guest at writers’ festivals, she was runner-up in the 2023 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship for her fourth novel.
For the past six years, Kate has co-hosted The First Time Podcast, engaging with over 200 Australian and international writers, including George Saunders, Behrouz Boochani, Helen Garner, and Richard Flanagan. Highly regarded as a festival moderator and speaker, Kate has been a guest at many Australian and international writers’ festivals.
Currently, Kate is undertaking a PhD in creative practice at RMIT University. Her first picture book, To Stir With Love, came out in October 2024. She lives in Hurstbridge on Wurundjeri lands with her partner and two children.
Festival Events
Things We Don’t Speak About: Pleasure
DATE April 5 TIME 1:00 pm WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X320 Book nowCulture and the Creative Spirit
DATE April 6 TIME 10:00 am WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X207 Book nowBY THE ARTIST
