Kathryn Crowcroft | Author | Giramondo Publishing

Kathryn Crowcroft

Kathryn Crowcroft’s writing has been published in Prototype, The Weekend Review, The Best Australian Poems series, and elsewhere. Her essay ‘Tongue Broken’ appeared in HEAT and Lit Hub. She held a Copyright Agency Creative Writing Fellowship after completing her doctorate as a twice-awarded Gates scholar at the University of Cambridge, where she won the John Kinsella and Brewer Hall prizes for poetry. Tongue (Giramondo, 2026) is her debut book.

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Non-fiction

192 pages
Paperback, 21 x 14.8 cm
Published October 2026
ISBN 9781923106765

Framed through her research into the tongue and its untold cultural significance, Kathryn Crowcroft’s debut explores how the organ has been cast as both sacred and sinful across centuries. Written in the shadow of gendered violence, and attuned to the ways in which we speak and avoid speaking, the book offers a fierce, sensitive and unique articulation of the truths we learn to lie for. Tongue creates a radical space for silence to resonate – and an exploration of how a voice might piece together what has been severed.

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