Kate Liston-Mills
To Heal A Lyrebird
2025
To Heal a Lyrebird is a bold venture into the subconscious to produce art of hope and promise, proving that there is a better way forward through this war-torn, indifferent and climate changed world. This is the blueprint. Its beating heart is the unique bond between a mother and her son ... Can they survive a broken world when all the odds are against them, and nothing is as it was before?
About the Author
Kate Liston-Mills is the author of The Waterfowl Are Drunk! (2016), Dear Ibis (2021) and To Heal a Lyrebird (2025) and is based in Pambula, NSW. She has worked as a journalist for both regional and urban publications and her short stories, reviews and poetry have been published in various Australian journals and anthologies.
Kate sustained an Acquired Brain Injury in 2004 which resulted in three hemorrhages, two in her frontal lobe and one in her occipital lobe. Despite the challenges and residual damages left from this injury, Kate has continued to study and work part time, finding much solace and fulfillment in the creative process. She has a Bachelor of Education (Primary), Bachelor of Creative Writing, Freelance Journalism Certificate and Master of Education (Teacher-Librarian). Kate lives on Yuin land on Australia’s Far South Coast in a little town called Pambula, working as a mother, creative writer, tutor and recently as a radio host for Little Fictions On Air, a radio program that showcases the best of Australian short fiction.
