Kathryn Heyman

Dr Kathryn Heyman is an internationally award-winning author of seven novels, as well as a poetry collection, a memoir and several radio dramas for the BBC. Fury, her memoir, was nominated for the International Folio Prize, shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, named a Guardian Book of the Year and is in development as a feature film. Circle of Wonders is her latest novel. She has taught writing all over the world, including for the University of Oxford where she was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. In 2010 she founded the Australian Writers Mentoring Program.