Kate McCaffrey
Author of Crime/Thriller
based in WA
Kate is the author of five award-winning and internationally published Young Adult titles that are used in the Australian school curriculum: Destroying Avalon, In Ecstasy, Beautiful Monster, Crashing Down and Saving Jazz.
She researched and authored a non-fiction text that deals with coded marking and feed-forward titled The (mostly) English Teachers’ Survival Guide to Marking.
In 2022, Kate released her first adult title, Double Lives, which is part crime and part thriller, and it was shortlisted in the Sydney BAD Crime Writer’s Danger Awards. Kate is doing a PhD at Curtin University, and part of her thesis is a Young Adult novel about toxic masculinity set in the Australian Football League.
Kate lives on Perth’s northern beaches with her husband, two daughters, two Maltese-Shih Tzus and a cat called Not-Ruby.
