Kate Llewellyn AM (born 15 January 1936)[1] is an Australian poet, author, diarist and travel writer.
Llewellyn trained at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, graduating as a registered nurse in 1958.
She has also taught creative writing courses and been writer-in-residence at a number of colleges, universities and writers' centres across Australia.
[6] In 1982 three of Llewellyn’s short stories – "The Balts", "Gone" and "I Am My Own Companion" – were published in Frictions, an Anthology of Fiction by Women, edited by Anna Gibbs and Alison Tilson (Sybylla Cooperative Press & Publications, 1982).
[13] Places in the heart: thirty prominent Australians reveal their special corners of the world, edited and compiled by Susan Kurosawa (Sceptre, 1997) includes her "Endless Horizons".