Catherine McKinnon
Catherine McKinnon studied to be a writer and director at Flinders University Drama Centre and then became a founding member of the Red Shed Theatre Company. Over a nine-year period she worked for the Shed as a writer, director, and as co-artistic director. With company members and writers, she helped develop many new Australian plays. Her own plays are Immaculate Deceptions, A Rose By Any Other Name, Road to Mindanao, and Eye of Another. During this time she also worked as a director for the State Theatre Company of SA.
After leaving Adelaide to focus on writing she completed a Masters in Creative Writing at UTS Sydney. In 2007 she won the Penguin/Woman’s Weekly Short Story award for Haley and the Sea. In 2008, her first novel The Nearly Happy Family was published. Currently she is working on her second novel, I Am Tree, and a play, As I Lay Dreaming.