Dr Kirsten Krauth is an author and arts journalist, poet and podcaster – and the commissioning editor of Into Your Arms: Nick Cave’s Songs Reimagined. Her latest novel, Almost a Mirror, was shortlisted for the Small Press Network Book of the Year Award and Penguin Literary Prize, and named in The Guardian’s Best 20 Books of 2020. The novel was developed into a successful podcast and live festival show, exploring ’80s pop and post-punk songs, and went to #1 on the Apple Music Podcast Charts in Australia. Kirsten loves to write poetry and her poem ‘Pencils From Heaven’ was judged runner-up/ highly commended in the 2021 Blake Poetry Prize. Her PhD in Creative Writing was awarded the Stephen Parker Medal for Most Outstanding PhD at the University of Canberra. An 80s tragic, Kirsten once won a dancing competition at Festival Hall in Melbourne that was judged by … Kylie Minogue.
