Kate McCaffrey

Summary

Kate McCaffrey is an award winning, internationally published fiction writer. Kate grew up in Perth’s northern suburbs. She has a degree in English and Art and a diploma in Education.

Biography

Kate is the author of five award-winning novels for young adults: Destroying Avalon (Fremantle Press 2006), winner of the WAYBRA Award for older readers and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Young Adults, translated into Hungarian, Slovenian and Korean; In Ecstasy (Fremantle Press 2008), winner of the Australian Family Therapists Children’s Literature Awards, translated into American; Beautiful Monster (Fremantle Press 2010), named a 2011 White Raven, selected from newly published books from around the world as especially noteworthy by the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany, Crashing Down (Fremantle Press 2014), winner of the Australian Family Therapists' Children's Literature Awards and Saving Jazz (Fremantle Press 2016), winner of the Australian Family Therapists' Children's Literature Awards. And for something completely different, The (mostly) English Teacher's Survival Guide to Marking One (Tentacle Publishing 2019), a reference book for teachers about using a coded marking and feed forward system, to reduce time spent marking and increase student results. Double Lives (Echo Publishing 2022) is Kate's first adult crime novel and was shortlisted in the Sydney Crime Writers' Festival Danger Awards.

Relevant qualifications

Bachelor of Arts (English, Fine Art) UWA
Diploma of Education UWA
PhD candidate Curtin University

Recent experience

Queensland Writers' Centre GenreCon speaker & workshops 2024
Queensland Writers' Centre Adaptable speaker 2024
Margaret River Writers' Festival workshops 2023
Storytelling on the Road: The Literature Centre Broome SHS 2023
Harrisdale SHS Book Week 2024