Katia Ariel
Katia Ariel is an award-winning author, book editor and educator from Melbourne/Naarm. She was born in Odessa, Ukraine. Her memoir, The Swift Dark Tide, was shortlisted for the Stella Prize in 2024 and won the 2024 Society of Women Writers NSW Non-fiction Prize. Katia's work has appeared in the Age, Womankind Magazine, Archer and the Guardian. She was the recipient of a 2022 Varuna Residential Fellowship and Bundanon Writing Residence. Her second book, Ferryman: The Life and Deathwork of Ephraim Finch, was published by Wild Dingo Press in June 2025.