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Kate Cole-Adams
Kate Cole-Adams is a Melbourne-based writer and journalist. Her book Anaesthesia: The gift of oblivion and the mystery of consciousness won the Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (non-fiction category) and longlisted for the Stella Prize. It is a personal, journalistic and philosophical exploration of what happens when we go under.