Catherine Harris’s short stories and essays have been published in Australia, Canada, England and the USA.

She won the 2009 Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize for her story ‘The real thing’ and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards for an unpublished manuscript.

Her short story collection, Like Being A Wife (Vintage, Random House), and has gone on to be shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis award and the 2011 Age Book of
the Year.