Kathryn Lomer

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.

Kathryn Lomer on Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2012

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 currently resides in Hobart in her native Tasmania.

Awards

• The 2003/2004 Anne Elder Award for Extraction of Arrows.^[5]
• The 2008 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize (The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards) 2008 for Two Kinds of Silence.^[5]
• The 2011 Margaret Scott Prize (The Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes) for "What now, Tilda B?".^[5]

She has also won the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, the Melbourne Poets' Union (MPU), Josephine Ulrick and ANUTECH poetry prizes.^[5]

Publications

• The God in the Ink, (2001)
• Extraction of Arrows, (2003)
• The Spare Room,^[6] (2005)
• Two Kinds of Silence, (2007)
• Camera Obscura, (2008)
• What now, Tilda B?,^[7] (2010)
• Night Writing, (2014)
• Talk Under Water, (2015)
• AfterLife, (2023)