Katerina Cosgrove

I was born on the same day as my sister, eight years apart. In 2009 I was diagnosed with melanoma, and my sister died of the same cancer the following year. This strengthened my resolve to live each day as if it is my last.

 

I’ve been a university tutor, co-owned bookshops and cafes (Sappho Books, Gertrude & Alice Cafe Bookstore) and completed a Bachelor of Communications (Hons) and a Doctorate (DCA), from the University of Technology, Sydney.

 

My first novel, THE GLASS HEART (HarperCollins, 2000), was also published in Greece by Govostis Press. I travelled to Armenia, Turkey, Lebanon and Syria to research my next novel, BONE ASH SKY (Hardie Grant, 2013, Aust/NZ/UK, Govostis, GREECE, 2016) which I began with the aid of an Australia Council grant and residency in Ireland. BONE ASH SKY was shortlisted for the ‘Writing Australia’ Unpublished Manuscript Award.

 

My novella INTIMATE DISTANCE (Text, 2012) was one of the winners of the Griffith Review/CAL Novella Prize. My novella, ZORBA THE BUDDHA (Spineless Wonders, 2020), was runner-up in the Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award and winner of the Woollahra Digital Literary Award. An audio-drama featuring award-winning actor Vaishnav Suryaprakash was also released. 

 

I’ve written prize-winning short stories, featured in poetry and prose anthologies and written for The Independent, Al Jazeera, The SMH, The Age, The Australian, The New Arab, SBS Voices, Daily Life, HuffPost, The Big Issue, ISLAND, Audrey Magazine, Dumbo Feather, ArtsHub and Australian Author. My work has been translated into Greek, Spanish, Chinese, Korean and Italian.

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I co-judged the Mark and Evette Moran Nib Award for Literature from 2014 to 2023, and the Australia reMADE Poetry Competition in 2019. In 2024 my memoir piece, Peel ME A F***ING FIG, was published in the anthology, Hellenic Dreaming, edited by Helen Vatsikopoulos. 

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I live in the Northern Rivers, NSW, surrounded by my beloved ocean.