Kerryn Goldsworthy

Kerryn Goldsworthy born 14 May 1953 is an Australian freelance writer and retired academic[1].

She taught at the University of Melbourne from 1981 until her resignation sixteen years later. Just prior to her retirement from academic work, she was appointed the editor of the Australian Book Review for a year and also served as a member of the Literature Board of the [Australia Council] from which Goldsworthy has also obtained financial grants for her work[2]

Her published works include articles published in Arena [3], North of the Moonlight Sonata (1989), Australian Love Stories(a chronological anthology on romantic, sexual love[4])(1997), and Helen Garner (1996) in Oxford University Press's Australian Authors series. In addition she has been involved in high profile academic debates with other Australian writers including making claims of "wilful misrepresentation" of her work by critics, saying of one "If Professor Whitlock claims to have no heart or soul then who am I to argue?"[5] She was also a judge of the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award until she resigned in a dispute about how the company that established the award had diminished the judges' authority[6].

A left-winger, Goldsworthy describes herself as "an old fashioned feminist"[7], regards Australia's Prime Minister John Howard's policies as "racist" [8] and has said she enjoyed House television programme as being "worth watching for eccentric little stories like a boy with an MP3 player stuck up his backside"[9]. She writes a blog called Pavlov's Cat[10] and is an unpaid Contributing Editor to the Macquarie University Centre for the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature. She lives in suburban Adelaide[11].

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