Kate Veitch

Kate Veitch was born in Adelaide in 1955. She left home and school at fifteen. Kate has published a non-fiction exploration of parenting, as well as journalism and book reviews for The Sydney Morning Herald and Vogue amongst others. She also produced Their Brilliant Careers, a series of programs on women writers for Radio National. Kate is based in Melbourne but spends half the year in New York with her partner.

Kate’s first novel Listen was published to great acclaim by Penguin in August 2006. Since then Listen has been released in Germany and most recently in the US under the title Without A Backward Glance. Kate's new novel, Trust was published in May 2010.