Kate Mildenhall
Author of Literary Fiction
based in VIC
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 third novel is The Hummingbird Effect (2023), 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 the recipient of residencies at Varuna, Bundanon Trust and the Michael King Writers Centre in Aotearoa. In 2023 she was runner up in the Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship.
Kate co-hosted The First Time Podcast where she interviewed over 200 Australian and international writers including George Saunders, Behrouz Boochani, Helen Garner, Sarah Winman, Tim Winton, Richard Flanagan and Charlotte Wood. Kate is highly regarded as a festival moderator and speaker.
Kate is currently undertaking a PhD in creative practice at RMIT University. Her first picture book To Stir with Love was released in 2024. Kate lives in Hurstbridge on Wurundjeri lands, with her partner and two children.
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This author holds a Working with Children Check (WWCC).
