Kimberley Starr (born 1970) is an Australian novelist and teacher.
[1] Kimberley Starr was born in 1970 in Morgantown, West Virginia, moving to Australia as a young child.
Starr currently teaches English at Viewbank College and is a graduate researcher in creative writing at La Trobe University.
Starr's 2004 debut novel, The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies has been taught as a secondary school text, won the 2003 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards for Best Emerging Author, and was chosen for the 2005 "One Book One Brisbane" reading campaign.
[3][4][5][6][7] In 2015, Starr won the Text Prize for best manuscript written for young adults and children.