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Katerina Bryant

Katerina Bryant is a writer based in South Australia. Her work has appeared in Griffith Review, The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, Southerly, Island Magazine and Voiceworks, amongst others. She has been shortlisted for the 2016 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers and 2018 Feminartsy Memoir Prize. She has also recently been anthologised in the collection ‘Balancing Acts: Women in Sport’ (Brow Books, 2018).

Katerina has read her work at The Wheeler Centre’s ‘Next Big Thing: Spotlight on SA’ as well as participating in a number of panels and workshops at the National Young Writers Festival in Newcastle, the Digital Writers’ Festival and the SA Writers Centre. In 2017, she presented a lecture on ‘Cyber Cities of Literature’ at the National Library for Noted Festival.

In 2017, she was awarded Project and Development funding from Carclew to travel to the Northern Territory to research ‘pigdogging’. Katerina also was awarded project funding on behalf of Writers Bloc, where she is the Writing Development Manager, from The Copyright Agency to develop a short video course program free to the public.

Hysteria coverShe is the inaugural recipient of the 2018 Writers SA Varuna Fellowship for Emerging Writers.

NewSouth Books will be publishing Katerina Bryant’s book Hysteria in late 2020. Part memoir, part research, it is a highly intelligent historical examination of the treatment of women’s health and ‘invisible illness’, and a deeply moving story of the author’s disintegrating sense of reality.

Praise for Hysteria:

‘Hysteria is a timely and exciting work… At once deeply personal and broadly political, it is a touching and tender examination of what it means to live in a body and with a brain that is aberrant or unwell, and how we might find a shape for our selves and our experiences in these circumstances. Bryant is a careful and intelligent writer, and this is a book that will have a great impact on many people.’ — Fiona Wright

‘At once devastating, hopeful, comforting and bold. Bryant captures precisely, beautifully what it is to be made uncertain by illness.’ — Anna Spargo-Ryan