Kate Lyons

Kate Lyons was born in 1965 in outback New South Wales. She has had her short fiction and poetry published in a range of Australian literary journals. Her first novel, The Water Underneath, was short listed in the 1999 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and was published by Allen & Unwin in 2001. Her second novel The Corner of Your Eye was published by Allen & Unwin in 2006. The Water Underneath was shortlisted for the Nita B. Kibble Award (Dobbie Award) fiction and the Fellowship of Australian Writers Melbourne University Press Literature Award, and was a notable book in the 2001 Pan Pacific Kiryama Prize. She holds a Doctor of Creative Arts degree from the University of Technology Sydney and was the NSW Ministry of the Arts Writing Fellow in 2006. She now lives in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.