The Heart of Owl Abbas

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Kathleen Jennings is a writer & illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia. Her Australian Gothic debut, Flyaway, was published by Tordotcom (Pan Macmillan, USA) & Picador (Australia) in 2020, & has been published in French (by les Moutons électriques) in 2023. Her short fiction has been published in Tor.com, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, & many other markets. Her debut poetry collection Travelogues: Vignettes from Trains in Motion was published by Brain Jar Press in 2020. Her writing has won the British Fantasy & Ditmar Awards, & been shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award & The Courier Mail People’s Choice Book of the Year Award (Queensland Literary Awards). She is also a World Fantasy Award-winning & Hugo Award-nominated illustrator. Her short story collection Kindling is to be published by Small Beer Press in January 2024, & she is currently a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Queensland.