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Katherine Brabon is an award-winning writer from Melbourne, Australia. Her first novel, The Memory Artist, won The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award in 2016. It was shortlisted in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and longlisted in the Indie Book Awards. Her second novel, The Shut Ins, won the People’s Choice Award at the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards in 2022. It was shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and longlisted for the Voss Prize and the ALS Gold Medal.
Her third novel Body Friend was published in Australia & the UK by Ultimo Press, and in North America & Canada by Bloomsbury. It was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the ALS Gold Medal.
Katherine was joint winner of the 2019 David Harold Tribe Fiction Award from the University of Sydney, runner up in the 2020 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize and longlisted in the 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.
Her work has appeared in Vogue, Australian Book Review, The Australian Financial Review, The Saturday Paper, Island, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald, and she is a regular contributor to Melbourne’s Lindsay magazine. She has been a resident at Château de Lavigny Switzerland, Art Omi New York, the UNESCO Cities of Literature International Residency in Ljubljana, and received the Varuna Writer’s House Eleanor Dark Fellowship.
Katherine lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.