Hannah Kent

Jo Case is the Program Manager at Melbourne Writers Festival. Before this, she was the Wheeler Centre’s senior writer/editor. Her first book, Boomer and Me: A memoir of motherhood, and Asperger’s is published by Hardie Grant in Australia and the UK.

She has been books editor of The Big Issue, associate editor of Kill Your Darlings, deputy editor of Australian Book Review and editor of Readings Monthly, the newsletter for Readings Books & Music.

Her writing has been published in the Australian, the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Monthly, Best Australian Stories, the Sleepers Almanac, Australian Book Review and other publications.

Hannah Kent's debut novel, Burial Rites (2013), was translated into over thirty languages and won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year, and the Victorian Premier's People's Choice Award. It was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Stella Prize, the Guardian First Book Award, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her second novel, The Good People, was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Award for Historical Fiction, the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, and the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year. Hannah's latest novel, Devotion, was published in 2021, and her original feature film, Run Rabbit Run, directed by Daina Reid and starring Sarah Snook, is currently in production with Carver Films.