Bundanon

Lives / works: Castlemaine, Djadjawurrung country 

Cate Kennedy has published fiction, non-fiction and poetry both in Australia and internationally.  Her poetry collection “The Taste of River Water” (Scribe, 2011) was awarded the Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry, and her two short story collections (“Dark Roots” (2006) and “Like a House on Fire” (2012) are both multi-awarded and on the Victorian VCE syllabus as teaching texts. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and currently teaches at Pacific University, Oregon’s Masters of Creative Writing Low-Residency program.  She recently won the 2022 Joseph Furphy Short Story Award.

In residence at Bundanon

In this project Cate is working with photographer Helga Salwe (Leunig) to create a text-and-image based exhibition of work based on landscape, the Shoalhaven river and some of the diverse family, nature and community stories of the South Coast.