Kate Howarth (born 1950, Sydney) is an Aboriginal Australian writer whose memoir Ten Hail Marys was published by the University of Queensland Press in 2010.
[5] The story of the first 17 years of her life is recounted in her memoir Ten Hail Marys,[3] which challenged evidence taken at a Parliamentary inquiry into adoption practices in N.S.W.
Reviewers considered it "Memoir at its confronting, revealing best",[6] which has a "complicated exploration of oppression and survival that ... provokes new understanding of the impacts of institutional intrusion on women and children through the potent testimony of life writing".
[8] Reviewers found it a "compelling read[] that document[s] important contemporary struggles for human liberation",[1] and concluded, "Her voice remains, as ever, invaluable".
[9][10][11] Since publication Kate has conducted a number of memoir writing workshops, that include the Varuna Writers House in Katoomba and the South Arts in the Bega Valley.