Kate Holden
Kate Holden‘s memoirs In My Skin (2005) and The Romantic (2010) were bestsellers published by Text Publishing and internationally. She is also the author of The Winter Road: A Killing at Croppa Creek (Black Ink, 2021), which won several awards including the Walkley Book Award and the NSW Premier’s Nonfiction Award in 2021. Kate wrote a popular column for The Age for several years and has widely published essays, short stories, and literary criticism, appearing most recently with portraits and features in The Saturday Paper. Her most recent work is The Ruin of Magic: Longing and belonging in strange times, a work combining memoir and cultural critique. She lives in the Illawarra.