Kate Gordon grew up in a very booky house, with two librarian parents, in a small town by the sea in Tasmania. She spent her childhood searching for fossils at Fossil Bluff, wondering about the doctor who rode his horse off the cliff at Doctor's Rocks, and eating the best chips in the world at the fish and chip shop at the wharf. She also spent much of her time dreaming about being a writer, and spent many a lunch hour walking around the playground reciting poetry. The other children thought she was a little bit odd. After studying performing arts and realising she was a terrible actor, Kate decided to give in to genetics and study to be a librarian herself. She never stopped writing and, in 2009, with the encouragement of a very nice man called Leigh (who is also her husband), she applied for and won a Varuna fellowship, which led to all sorts of lovely writer things happening.Kate's first book, Three Things About Daisy Blue - a Young Adult novel about travel, love, self-acceptance and letting go - was published in the Girlfriend series by Allen and Unwin in 2010. Her second book, Thyla, was published by Random House Australia in April 2011 and her third book, Vulpi, the sequel to Thyla, was published in April 2012!Now, Kate lives in the big city of Launceston with her husband, her very strange cat, Mephy Danger Gordon, and a wonderful little Tiger Baby called Tessa (nb. Tessa is not actually a tiger. She just THINKS she is). Kate dreams that one day she and her little family will live in a cottage by the beach. In the meantime, she fills her house with books, perfects her oven-baked-chip-cooking technique, listens to music you can headbang or bootscoot to, and she writes.Kate was the recipient of 2011 and 2012 Arts Tasmania Assistance to Individuals grants, which means she can now spend more time doing what she loves.