Kate Fagan
Kate Fagan is a writer, musician and scholar whose third collection, First Light, was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and The Age Book of the Year Award. She is Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University and runs The Writing Zone, a mentoring program for emerging writers and arts workers from the Greater Western Sydney region.
Kate also chairs the Sydney Review of Books advisory board and has collaborated with the SRB to design and oversee the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature program. Her album Diamond Wheel won the National Film and Sound Archive Award for Folk Recording.
Her latest volume of poetry, Song in the Grass, was published by Giramondo in June 2024.
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