Kirsten Krauth
Kirsten Krauth is an author, editor and arts journalist who lives in Castlemaine. Her bestselling novel Almost a Mirror, published in April 2020 by Transit Lounge, was shortlisted for the Penguin Literary Prize and her first novel is just_a_girl. She received the Stephen Parker Medal at the University of Canberra for Most Outstanding PhD Thesis for her creative writing PhD – Almost a Mirror – along with the Donald Horne Creative and Cultural Fellowship to produce a podcast about Australian 80s songs featured in the book: visit @almost.a.mirror on Instagram or search out Almost a Mirror on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music to hear the playlist. Her writing on film/TV, literature, photography and digital arts has been published in the Guardian, Saturday Paper, Monthly, Age/SMH and Overland, and she has been editing Writing NSW’s Newswrite magazine for over a decade.