About Me
Kia Ora, I’m Kate
I’m a Kiwi living in Melbourne with my family, an alarming amount of Lego, and an ordinary number of books.
I have immersed myself in stories – both reading and writing them – for my entire life. I still remember the delight of getting my very first library card, when I was eight. And ever since I could hold a pencil, I’ve been making up stories (which have come a long way since the first one: “I like cats.”)
We Who Hunt The Hollow is my debut novel. It won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Young Adults in 2023. The sequel, We Who Are Forged In Fire, was released August 2023.
I like coffee, sunshine, sci fi and fantasy, marshmallow, martinis, lip balm (I always have at least one Carmex on me), cute earrings, and reading. And I still like cats.
You can find me at Twitter, Threads, Bluesky, and Instagram.
STORY THINGS I LOVE…
- Families – born or found
- Tragic love, misguided love, & doing dumb stuff for love
- Gentle giants and prickly loners
- Vampires
- Futuristic cities, and lost cities, and ruins
- Time loops
- Immortality
- Fresh beginnings
- Banter
- Apocalypses and dystopias
- Food & feasts
RANDOM THINGS ABOUT ME…
- At university I studied Communications, majoring in Digital
- I lived in London for 5 years
- I’m from Aotearoa New Zealand
- Some day I’d like to learn piano
- I have a weirdly winky left eye! (Marcus Gunn Phenomenon)
- My comfort food is mashed potato and chicken nibbles
- I won the Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition (secondary schools division) in 1999 with a story called “Meeting Kurt”
- Books by Maurice Gee, Sherryl Jordan, Caroline Macdonald, Margaret Mahy, Tessa Duder, Tamora Pierce, John Christopher and Jane Yolen were a major part of my diet as a young reader
MEDIA KIT
Updated Apr ’22
Bio
Kate Murray is a New Zealander living in Melbourne with her family, an alarming amount of Lego, and an ordinary number of books. She is a full-time parent and writer, conjuring up spare time so she can conjure up stories. Her debut young adult novel, We Who Hunt the Hollow, was shortlisted for the Ampersand Prize.