Kaz Cooke is a cartoonist, author and broadcaster. She began her career as a cadet journalist at The Age, and soon began her cartoon strip Hermoine the Modern Girl.

Kaz is perhaps best known for her non-fiction works for which she has been ‘the Number One Advisor for Australian girls and women’. These include (and are by no means limited to):
Up the Duff: The Real Guide to Pregnancy
Real Gorgeous: The Truth About Body and Beauty 
Kidwrangling: Looking After Babies, Toddlers and Preschoolers
Girl Stuff: Your Full-on Guide to the Teen Years, awarded the Australian Publishers Association’s General Non-fiction Book of the Year, the Australian Booksellers Association’s Booksellers Choice Award, and an honour prize from Children‘s Book Council of Australia.

In 2013 Kaz received a Creative Fellowship from the State Libraryof Victoria to create a fashion installation, Raiment and regalia, which was a popular feature in the Library's Dome gallery exhibition.

In 2017 Kaz published Ada. Kaz has also published articles, cartoons and opinion pieces in the magazines Dolly, The Australian Women’s Weekly, Who and Cleo. She has also written for the Weekend Australian Magazine and The Canberra Times.

Related episodes:
Leigh Hobbs and Alison Lester are both other well known Australian illustrators.

About The Garret

The Garret is committed to accessibility and education. The transcript and interactive show notes of Kaz’s interview are available at www.thegarretpodcast.com/kaz-cooke.

<a href="https://thegarretpodcast.com/kaz-cooke">Kaz Cooke</a> is a cartoonist, author and broadcaster. She began her career as a cadet journalist at The Age, and soon began her cartoon strip Hermoine the Modern Girl.
Kaz is perhaps best known for her non-fiction works for which she has been ‘the Number One Advisor for Australian girls and women’. These include (and are by no means limited to):
<ul>
<li>Up the Duff: The Real Guide to Pregnancy</li>
<li>Real Gorgeous: The Truth About Body and Beauty </li>
<li>Kidwrangling: Looking After Babies, Toddlers and Preschoolers</li>
<li>Girl Stuff: Your Full-on Guide to the Teen Years, awarded the Australian Publishers Association’s General Non-fiction Book of the Year, the Australian Booksellers Association’s Booksellers Choice Award, and an honour prize from Children‘s Book Council of Australia.</li>
</ul>
In 2013 Kaz received a Creative Fellowship from the State Libraryof Victoria to create a fashion installation, Raiment and regalia, which was a popular feature in the Library's Dome gallery exhibition.
In 2017 Kaz published Ada. Kaz has also published articles, cartoons and opinion pieces in the magazines Dolly, The Australian Women’s Weekly, Who and Cleo. She has also written for the Weekend Australian Magazine and The Canberra Times.
Related episodes:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://thegarretpodcast.com/leigh-hobbs">Leigh Hobbs</a> and <a href="https://thegarretpodcast.com/alison-lester">Alison Lester</a> are both other well known Australian illustrators.</li>
</ul>
About The Garret
The Garret is committed to accessibility and education. The transcript and interactive show notes of Kaz’s interview are available at <a href="https://thegarretpodcast.com/kaz-cooke/">www.thegarretpodcast.com/kaz-cooke</a>.

The Garret is a podcast for lovers of books and storytelling.

Always about Australian writers and their craft, in 2023 The Garret expanded focus and also interviews industry figures about what gets published (and why).

The Garret is educational in outlook. A defining feature of The Garret is our transcripts. Each interview is published with a complete transcript (so you don’t have to write anything down while you listen).

The Garret is a labour of love on behalf of all emerging writers. It does not operate for revenue or profit. If you would like to support The Garret, simply subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts and join the conversation on Instagram or Twitter.

You can also follow our host Astrid Edwards at astridedwards.com.

The Garret is a podcast for lovers of books and storytelling.
Always about Australian writers and their craft, in 2023 The Garret expanded focus and also interviews industry figures about what gets published (and why).
The Garret is educational in outlook. A defining feature of The Garret is our transcripts. Each interview is published with a complete transcript (so you don’t have to write anything down while you listen).
The Garret is a labour of love on behalf of all emerging writers. It does not operate for revenue or profit. If you would like to support The Garret, simply subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts and join the conversation on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/garretpodcast/">Instagram</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/garretpodcast">Twitter</a>.
You can also follow our host Astrid Edwards at <a href="https://astridedwards.com/" data-wpel-link="external">astridedwards.com</a>.

🎧 Interviews with writers about craft and industry figures about what gets published and why.

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