Katelin Farnsworth lives in lutruwita (Tasmania)  with her husband. ​

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​Katelin's writing has appeared in various places (The Saturday Paper, The Age, Overland, The Slow Canoe, Lip Mag, Tincture Journal, The Sydney Morning Herald, WritersBloc, Award Winning Australian Writing, SBS Voices)  and others. 

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Two of Katelin's novel manuscripts have been shortlisted for the Penguin Literary Prize (2020 and 2022).  She won first place in the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction in 2015 and has a degree in Professional and Creative Writing from Deakin University. In 2021 she won a highly competitive Australian Society of Authors mentorship and worked under the guidance of an award-winning author. Katelin was then part of the 2022 Hidden Nerve Program, a collection of writing craft workshops, run by the ACT Writers' Centre.

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Katelin likes to explore the darker aspects of humanity and is most interested in why people do the things they do, what motivates and drives them, and how people can end up in unexpected, messy situations. ​

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