Kate Richards is a memoirist, poet and most recently, a novelist. In 2019 Kate moved from non-fiction to the world of fiction with her first novel, Fusion.
Her first work, 2013's Madness: A Memoir, received the Adelaide Festival's Award for Literature and was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards. Kate followed that stunning debut with 2014's Is There No Place For Me: Making Sense of Madness, which was shortlisted for the Human Rights Award.
Her work goes where few writers have ever gone. It is profound and honest, and represents not only a contribution to Australian literature, but a contribution to literature on mental health and identify.
This episode comes with a content warning, as Kate's memoir and our discussion of it touches on trauma and mental illness.
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