Cate Kennedy is an Australian author widely published as a novelist, short story author, poet and essayist. She studied Professional Writing and Editing at the University of Canberra and Literature Studies at the Australian National University and attained her PhD in Creative Writing by Research at La Trobe University in 2021, where her doctoral thesis was awarded the Nancy Millis Medal. In her home country of Australia is best-known as a short story practitioner but has also published three volumes of poetry, a novel and a travel memoir. Her two short story collections Dark Roots (2006) and Like a House on Fire (2012) both published by Scribe, have both been on the Victorian VCE School Syllabus as teaching texts for several years and she has taught writing workshops internationally. . Both her novel and her short stories have been made into Australian audiobooks and her work has appeared widely in Australia, the U.K. and the U.S.A. She has also been published in French, Mandarin and Farsi. She is currently a faculty member of Pacific University’s MFA in Creative Writing program in Portland, Oregon, teaching both fiction and non-fiction.”
Lily Kong is an author and winner of Singapore’s National Arts Council’s Beyond Words Competition in 2013. Her English language children books were nominated for the US Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ Crystal Kite Awards and has been translated into Mandarin by a China publisher.
She has 4 books published with Epigram Publisher in Singapore –
Dad’s Too Busy
Dad’s For Sale
Dad’s At Home
Dad’s Dyslexic Too
She also has a book published by Akasaa Publishing in Malaysia –
The Girl who wears Two Watches
She has 5 Chinese books published in Singapore and China.
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