Kyra Giorgi (born 1977) is an Australian author and historian.
[1] Kyra Giorgi was born in Perth Western Australia—her mother is the novelist Gail Jones.
[2] Giorgi took her PhD in history from La Trobe University[3] in 2012 with the thesis - Saudade, lítost, hüzün: cultural identity and melancholic fatalism on the margins of Europe.
[4] The Circle and the Equator was her first book of fiction, and was Highly Commended in the inaugural Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.
[5] At the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards, her work The Circle and the Equator won the University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection - Steele Rudd Award.