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Kris Kneen
Krissy has short wavy hair and glasses. She's looking at the camera.

Kris Kneen is the author of the memoirs Affection, The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen, and Fat Girl Dancing; the Thomas Shapcott Award winning poetry collection Eating My Grandmother; the novels Steeplechase, Triptych, The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine, and An Uncertain Grace, shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the Norma K Hemming Award and the Aurealis awards. Kris's novel Wintering was longlisted for the Colin Roderick Award and shortlisted for the Davitt Award. Kris is currently developing two TV series with Stan and Screen Queensland and has previously written and directed broadcast television documentaries with SBS and ABC TV. Kris was the 2020 Copyright Agency non-fiction Fellow.