KATY WARNER is a playwright and writer, living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). She studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, receiving a Master of Writing for Performance in 2012. Her plays have been presented across Australia, New Zealand and the UK. She is an AWGIE winner Best Children’s Theatre for Reasons to Stay Inside; recipient of the Melbourne Fringe Award for Best Emerging Writer These are the isolate; and two-time nominee for a Green Room award for new writing A Prudent Man and Spencer. Her play, nest, was long-listed for Theatre503 Playwriting Awards (UK) and premiered at London’s 2018 Vault Festival (Small Truth Theatre). Her plays have enjoyed national tours with Lab Kelpie and ArTour. Katy was a participant in the Besen Family Artist Program (Writer) at Malthouse Theatre and Melbourne Theatre Company’s Women in Theatre Program. In 2018, she presented a new work, K, as part of the MTC Cybec Electric Readings season. Her fiction has received the Rachel Furnai Prize for Literature (Lip Magazine) and Overland Magazine’s Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Her writing has been shortlisted for awards including the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Prize and Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Prize, and has been featured in Best Summer Stories (Black Inc.), The Slow Canoe and Overland. Katy’s debut novel, Everywhere Everything Everyone, was published in 2019 by Hardie Grant and was shortlisted for the Readings Young Adult Book of the Year Award. She is currently working on her second YA novel, Triple Threat, to be published by Hardie Grant in 2022. Katy is a proud member of the Australian Writers’ Guild