Dr. Kerryn Lee Goldsworthy (born 14 May 1953) is an Australian freelance writer and former academic.
She was the editor of the Australian Book Review (May 1986 to Dec 1987); decades later she claimed that the experience involved her "learning more about human nature in those two years than in either the preceding thirty-three or the following nineteen.
"[5] Goldsworthy also served as a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council and has also been the recipient of Australia Council grants allocated from its Literature Fund.
[6] In 1997, Kerryn Goldsworthy returned to Adelaide and turned to freelance writing.
[7] She has also served as a visiting research fellow at the University of Adelaide[8] where she is a guest teacher in the Graduate Certificate course in Food Writing.