Catherine McKinnon

Catherine McKinnon is an award-winning playwright and novelist. She studied theatre performance and cinema at Flinders University. Her play Tilt was selected for the 2010 National Playwriting Festival, and As I Lay Dreaming won the 2010 Mitch Matthews Award. Her short stories, reviews and articles have appeared in Transnational Literature, Text Journal, RealTime, Narrative and Griffith Review. McKinnon, along with four other writers, won the Griffith Review Novella 111 Award, 2015, and her novella Will Martin was published by Griffith Review in October of that year. Her novel Storyland was shortlisted for the 2018 Miles Franklin Award, the Barbara Jefferis Award and the Voss Award.