Authors and Artists

Danijela Kambaskovic has worked as Assistant Professor, Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies at the University of Western Australia in Perth. From 2008 to 2010, she coordinated on-line courses on Shakespeare and Medieval studies for Macquarie Unive... Full profile

Peter Kendall is an artist who is active in many areas, from corporate and portrait commissions, to paintings for exhibition, illustrating books, and cartooning. Full profile

Timothy Kendall completed a PhD in literary and cultural studies at La Trobe University in 2003. He has taught at a number of Melbourne-based universities and has published widely on the Australia-China relationship. As the 2007 Australian Parliam... Full profile

Bernadette Kennedy is descended from Irish, English and Scottish migrants who came to Victoria in the 1840s. After ten years as a teacher she crossed the Nullabor and worked with the homeless and disadvantaged in Western Australia. Active in peace... Full profile

Dale Kentwell has been a practising artist since the 1980s and works across different media. She completed an art certificate at TAFE NSW and a BA and MA in visual arts at UNSW Art and Design. She has studied bush regenera... Full profile

Colin Kenworthy has been a member of the Western Australian Secondary Education Authority Literature Syllabus Committee and has published and presented papers and workshops at international, national and regional conferences. Full profile

Susan Kenworthy lives in Western Australia and has given papers and workshops at national and regional conferences. Full profile

Jordi Kerr is a writer, youth literature advocate and support worker for queer young people. Their thoughts about books have appeared in such places as Archer, Books+Publishing, Kill Your Darlings, and Crikey. They were a recipient of one of the W... Full profile

Graham was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England in 1961 and emigrated to Western Australia in 1971. He has had stories, novels, poems and articles published since 2000. Full profile

Cheryl Kickett-Tucker belongs to three areas of the Noongar people – Wadjuk (Swan River), Balladong (Wheatbelt) and Yued (Moora). Lucky Thamu was inspired by her family’s experiences in the bush over the past twenty years. Full profile

Stephen Kinnane is a descendant through his mother’s mother of the Miriwoong people of the East Kimberley and was raised in Noongar country in the south-west of Western Australia. As a writer and researcher he has worked on a variety of comm... Full profile

Andra Kins is passionate about creativity, and cultural development. She has a degree in architecture and a postgraduate diploma in creative writing. She works as an independent art consultant and has published articles exploring issues related to... Full profile

John Kinsella's many volumes of poetry include the prize winning collections Peripheral Light: New and Selected Poems and The New Arcadia. He is an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and a Research Fellow at the Unive... Full profile

Ivor Knight, born in 1934 in Perth, was declared a ‘neglected child’ in 1938 and placed in the custody of the Christian Brothers. He survived the Castledare, Clontarf and Tardun orphanages, being expelled in 1949. He worked on sheep an... Full profile

Ezekiel Kwaymullina is from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Full profile

Blaze Kwaymullina worked with Sally Morgan at the Centre for Indigenous History and the Arts at the University of Western Australia and co-edited Speaking from the Heart and Heartsick for Country. Full profile

Ambelin Kwaymullina is an Aboriginal writer and illustrator who comes from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. She is the author and illustrator of a number of award-winning picture books as well as a YA dystopian series.... Full profile