CATE KENNEDY writes across genres, and is published as a novelist, short story author, poet and essayist. Her most recent collection, “Like A House on Fire” was published by Scribe in 2012 and went on to win the Queensland Literary Award for best Short Story Collection as well as being shortlisted for the inaugural Stella Prize and the Kibble Award. Several of its stories were published in the U.K prior to its publication there through Scribe U.K. and she is appearing at the 2014 International Conference on the Short Story in Vienna in July 2014. Her third poetry collection ‘The Taste of River Water’ was released by Scribe in 2011, and awarded the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her novel ‘The World Beneath’ (Scribe, 2009) was shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year Award, the Barbara Jefferis Award and the N.S.W. Premier’s Prize for fiction. It went on to win the “People’s Choice” prize in these awards. She is currently living in Vanuatu, working on a new novel with the assistance of an Established Writers Australia Council grant, and completing a commissioned novella for GriffithREVIEW. She has also selected and edited the stories for Inkerman and Blunt’s 2014 release “New Australian Love Stories”.