Kathryn Lomer (born 1958, Tasmania) is an Australian novelist, young adult novelist, short story writer and poet. [1] She has also written for screen, with one short film credit to date.
Her first novel, The God in the Ink was published by the University of Queensland Press in 2001. [2] Her first book of poetry, Extraction of Arrows, also published by UQP, was released in September 2003. [3] Since then she has published two YA novels, a collection of short stories and two more collections of poetry, all with UQP.
Her poetry has been favourably compared with that of fellow Australian poet, Jennifer Maiden. [4]
She has also won the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, the Melbourne Poets' Union (MPU), Josephine Ulrick and ANUTECH poetry prizes. [5]
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