Michaela Kalowski
Michaela Kalowski is an interviewer, moderator and curator for writers and ideas festivals. Highlight interviews include Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Tim Winton, Mieko Kawakami, Robyn Davidson and Stan Grant. She was curator of Big Weekend of Books, ABC RN's annual on-air writers' festival for five years. She produces and hosts a monthly books conversation event for Petersham Bowling Club in Sydney.
Michaela has conducted radio interviews and presented programs across ABC radio and TV including hosting a regular book recommendation spot on ABC TV Weekend Breakfast. She's produced and facilitated panels with academics, writers and thinkers in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane as well as for numerous online events and she regularly programs public discussions for libraries in NSW.
She's co-presenter and co-writer of a two-part podcast for ABC RN, tracing part of her family's history, called Laya's Way Home.