Kim Kelly
"It is uplifting to know that there are people who can write like this, with clarity, a bit of devilment and a hint of a smile."
Kim is a writer of Australian fiction, author of eleven novels – Black Diamonds, This Red Earth, The Blue Mile, Paper Daisies, Wild Chicory, Jewel Sea, Lady Bird & The Fox, Sunshine, Walking, Her Last Words and The Truth & Addy Loest – tales of passion, politics and history, of ordinary people living through extraordinary times in the land Kim calls home.
Her latest novel, The Truth & Addy Loest, was published in February 2021, and is presently working on another. She is always working on another novel, and occasionally a short story, one of which, ‘Messerschmitt’, appears in the Hope Prize anthology, or a novella, one of which, ‘The Rat Catcher’, was shortlisted for Viva la Novella 2021.
When Kim is not writing, she is reading. In real life Kim is a book editor, better known on that side of the page as Kim Swivel, and regularly reviews for The Newtown Review of Books, too.
Raised in Sydney in a house that was humble except for its library and dinner-table debating style, Kim was always going to do wordy type things myself, and do them her own way. Home today is Central West New South Wales, where she is daily grateful to share a small slice of rolling green-and-gold Wiradjuri country with her muse de bloke, Deano, two cats and some chickens, and occasionally the kids when they come home to graze.