Kate Llewellyn

Kate Llewellyn is the author of 20 books. These comprise eight of poetry, four of travel and the others are memoir, nature writing and essays.

Her book The Waterlily; A Blue Mountains Journal, published by Hudson Hawthorn in 1986, was a best-seller and has been made into a talking book by Louis Braille.

She is the co-author of The Penguin Book of Australian Women poets.

For 20 years, she taught creative writing at the University of Sydney. She lives in Hove, South Australia.

Her most recent books are Playing With Water, the story of a garden,

published by HarperCollins Australia and The Dressmaker's Daughter (a memoir) also published by HarperCollins in 2008.