
Kyra Geddes
ABOUT
Kyra Geddes
Kyra Geddes was born in Adelaide to German-Italian heritage and spent her infancy in the South Australian opal fields before settling on the Northern Beaches from the age of five. Following a successful career in marketing and business, Kyra returned to university to study creative writing and pursue her lifelong dream of writing. The Story Thief is her debut novel, and the culmination of almost a decade of research and writing. Kyra is also passionate art lover and traveller, with two children.
PROGRAM SESSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.