Kate Richards
Australian writer, doctor and medical researcher
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Early life and education
Richards is a graduate of RMIT University in Melbourne, and Monash University, where she trained as a doctor while battling mental illness in the form of severe depression.
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Career
After battling depression for fifteen years, including periods of self-harm and attempted suicide, Richards wrote a detailed account of her personal experiences, both with the illness itself and with the many psychiatrists and other health professionals who treated her. The book, titled Madness: A Memoir, was published by Penguin Books in 2013, and has been widely discussed and positively reviewed by both the literary and the medical communities. In 2014 the book won the $5000 Dobbie Literary Award for a first book by an Australian female writer and the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature (non-fiction).
In 2014, Richards' second book. Is There No Place For Me? Making Sense of Madness was published by Penguin Books. This book was shortlisted for the Government of Australia Human Rights Non-Fiction Literature Award.
In 2019 her first novel, Fusion, was published by Penguin Books. It was shortlisted for Best Novel at the 2019 Australian Shadow Awards.
Richards works as a medical researcher, and also writes and lectures about the writing process and about her experiences with mental illness.