Kennedy is interested in universal human experiences and emotions, and takes her inspiration from everyday events in the world around her. More recently, her short story anthology Like a House on Fire was shortlisted for the Stella Prize (2013) and won the Steele Rudd Award in the same year. She has also published several poetry collections: Signs of Other Fires (2001), Joyflight (2004), and The Taste of River Water (2011). Kennedy’s memoir, Sing, and Don’t Cry (2005), charts her experiences traveling and working in rural Mexico. In 2010, for example, her novel The World Beneath won the People’s Choice Award at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and she has won The Age Short Story competition twice. Since then, she has published many fictional works-including her highly acclaimed short story collection Dark Roots (2006)-and been awarded numerous literary prizes. She took a hiatus from writing after graduation, but began entering short story competitions again when she was in her thirties.
As a teenager she won a short story prize in The Canberra Times, and she went on to study creative writing at university. Kennedy was born in Lincolnshire, England, but moved to Australia during her childhood.
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