Katia Ariel
KATIA ARIEL is an award-winning author, book editor and educator from Melbourne/Naarm. She was born in Odesa, Ukraine. Her memoir, The Swift Dark Tide, was shortlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize and was the winner of the 2024 Society of Women Writers NSW Non-fiction Prize. Katia has been published in a variety of literary journals, including Womankind, Archer and Antithesis. She was the recipient of the Varuna Residential Fellowship (in 2022) and Bundanon Writing Residence (in 2024). Ferryman: The Life and Deathwork of Ephraim Finch is her second book.