Cate Kennedy

• Name — Cate Kennedy • Born — 1963 • Birthplace — Louth, Lincolnshire • Occupation — Writer, poet and teacher of creative writing, editor • Language — English • Notable Works — The Taste of River Water • Awards — 2011 Victorian Premier's Literary Award • Years Active — 1978- Cate Kennedy (born 1963) is an Australian author based in Victoria.

Kennedy was born in 1963 in England at Louth, Lincolnshire. She was educated at the University of Canberra and the Australian National University. She has taught at several colleges, including The University of Melbourne. Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People's Choice Award in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 2010. It was also shortlisted for The Age fiction prize 2010 and the ASA Barbara Jefferis Award 2010, among others. She is a short-story writer whose work has twice won The Age Short Story Competition and has appeared in a range of publications, including The New Yorker. Her collection, Dark Roots, was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Kennedy is also the author of the travel memoir Sing, and Don’t Cry, and the poetry collections Joyflight and Signs of Other Fires. Her book The Taste of River Water: New and Selected Poems by Cate Kennedy, which was published in May 2011, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry.

• The World Beneath (Scribe, 2009) ISBN 978-1-921372-96-4

• Collections • Dark Roots, (Scribe, 2006) ISBN 1-920769-99-4 review • Like a House on Fire, (Scribe, 2012) ISBN 978-1-922070-06-7 • Selected short stories • Title — |Year — |First published — |Reprinted/collected — |Notes • Cold snap — 2006 —??? — * Dark Roots * — Reprinted as "Black ice" in The New Yorker • Five dollar family — 2009 • Doisneau's kiss — 2014 • Anthologies (edited) • Labour of Love: Tales from the World of Midwives, with Amanda Tattam (Macmillan, 2005) • Love & Desire: Four Modern Australian Novellas (Five Mile Press, 2007) • The Best Australian Stories 2011 (Black Inc, 2011) • Australian Love Stories (Inkerman & Blunt, 2014)

• Collections • Signs of Other Fires, (Five Islands Press, c2001) ISBN 0-86418-728-9 • Joyflight (Interactive Press, 2004) ISBN 1-876819-26-X API review • Crucible and Other Poems, (Picaro Press, 2006) • The Taste of River Water, (Scribe, 2011) ISBN 978-1-921844-00-3

• Sing, and Don't Cry: a Mexican Journal, (Transit Lounge, 2005) ISBN 0-9750228-1-4