Katherine Johnson is the author of three novels: Pescador's Wake (Fourth Estate 2009), The Better Son (Ventura Press 2016), and Matryoshka (Ventura Press 2018). Her fourth novel, Paris Savages (Ventura Press), will be published in October 2019. Katherine, born in Brisbane, Queensland, now lives in Tasmania where she has worked as a science journalist and lives on a clifftop at the edge of the bush with her husband and two children. Her non-fiction articles have been published internationally.Pescador's Wake won a HarperCollins Varuna Award for Manuscript Development in 2007. The Better Son tells the story of a family yearning for love but layered with secrets, and the price of a lie. Set in northern Tasmania’s cave country, The Better Son has been described by readers described as ‘unputdownable’. It won the University of Tasmania Prize in 2013 (Tasmanian Literary Awards), the People's Choice Award (Tasmanian Literary Awards 2013), as well as a HarperCollins Varuna Award for Manuscript Development in 2013. The Better Son was Longlisted for the Australian Indie Book Awards and The Tasmania Book Prize (Premier’s Literary Awards).Matryoshka is set against the beautiful backdrop of Tasmania and tells the story of secrets, refuge, and loves lost and found.Katherine Johnson has a Bachelor of Arts (Journalism), an honours degree in marine science and recently completed a PhD in creative writing at the University of Tasmania.
We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.
Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.
