Katy is an author and playwright based in Naarm | Melbourne, Australia.

Her most recent plays include Grace (Red Stitch Actors Theatre), Girl Band (National Theatre of Parramatta / New Ghosts), Refined (Melbourne Fringe / Lab Kelpie) and national tours of A Prudent Man and Spencer with Lab Kelpie Theatre. Awards include an AWGIE for Best Children’s Play, the Melbourne Fringe Award for Best Emerging Writer and nominations for the Victorian Green Room award for new writing, the Martin Lysicrates Prize and Lysicrates Prize and Griffin Award. Katy was a commissioned playwright for Old Fitz and Playwriting Australia’s New Fitz Writers’ Program and Red Stitch Actor Theatre’s INK Program. She was a playwright in the Besen Family Artist Program with Malthouse Theatre and part of Melbourne Theatre Company’s Women in Theatre and Cybec Electric programs. She studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, receiving a Master of Writing for Performance in 2012.

Her fiction has received the Rachel Furnai Prize for Literature (Lip Magazine) and Overland Magazine’s Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Her writing has appeared in Best Summer Stories (Black Inc.), The Slow Canoe and Overland Magazine. Katy’s debut novel, Everywhere Everything Everyone, was published in 2019 by Hardie Grant; and was shortlisted for the Readings YA Book of the Year Award. Her second novel, Triple Threat, published by Hardie Grant in 2022, was a Children Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Notable.

Katy is a proud member of the Australian Writers’ Guild.