Kate Forsyth

Dr Kate Forsyth is an award-winning author, poet and performance storyteller. Her novels include Psykhe, a retelling of the ancient Greek myth, The Crimson Thread, set in Crete during World War II and Bitter Greens, which won the 2013 ALA Award for Best Historical Fiction. She has also written Alchemy, an assemblage of art, poetry and creative reflections with painter Wendy Sharpe, and Long-Lost Fairy Tales, a collection of little-known folktales from around the world, illustrated by Lorena Carrington.