Katherine Johnson

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Katherine Johnson is an Adjunct Researcher in Humanities at the University of Tasmania. She is a science writer and novelist. Her latest novel, Every Wild Soul (HarperCollins 28 April 2026), discusses rewilding and is the inaugural winner of The Australian Fiction Prize. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and Science with First Class Honours from the University of Queensland and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Tasmania.

Experience

  • –present
    PhD graduate, Academic (casual staff) creative writing, novelist, University of Tasmania
  • –present
    Adjunct researcher, University of Tasmania
  • 1995–2008
    Science Writer, CSIRO

Education

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    University of Queensland, BA/BSc Hons 1
  • 2019 
    University of Tasmania, PhD creative writing/Humanities

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