Photo: Louise Agnew

About Kim

Kim Lock is an internationally published author and writer, based in the beautiful south-east of South Australia.

Kim is the author of five novels, including The Fancies (2023), and the bestselling The Other Side of Beautiful (2021). Her other titles include her cult hit debut Peace, Love and Khaki Socks (2013), Like I Can Love (2016, titled as The Good Mother in the UK) which was selected for the QWC/Hachette Australia Manuscript Development Program in 2013, and The Three of Us (2018). Her essays and opinion pieces on writing, feminism and motherhood have been published widely, including in Kill Your Darlings, The Guardian and The Sydney Morning Herald among others. Her fiction appears in translation.

When she's not writing or reading, you'll find Kim in her garden, or running along a quiet forest trail. She is at work on a new novel.

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Kim is represented by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown Australia.

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Contact Kim

Kim loves to hear from readers! She is also available for interview, other writing, or anything else you might like to talk to her about. Find her (somewhat sporadically) on Facebook, or fill out the contact form below.