Fellowships – Kirsten Tranter

Fellowships Inspiration

AMOR ROMA

May 22, 2026

I fell in love with Rome, staying for a month at the B.R.Whiting Studio thanks for a fellowship from Creative Australia to work on my work-in-progress, a collection of personal

I’ve published three novels, most recently Hold (2016), longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Voss Literary Prize. I grew up in Sydney and now live in the San Francisco Bay Area. My columns, reviews and essays appear regularly in The Sydney Morning Herald and other publications. I am a founder of The Stella Prize for Australian women’s writing, have a PhD in English from Rutgers University and have taught creative writing and literary studies at University of California, Berkeley and UTS, Sydney.