Kate Llewellyn

Kate LLewellyn (born 1936 is an Australian poet.

Life
She was born 'Katherine Jill Sky Brinkwort at Tumbly Bay, South Australia, the oldest of four children of Ivy and Ron Brinkworth. She trained as a nurse, moving to Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1958. In 1960 she married Richard Llewellyn; the couple had two children, Hugh (born in 1962) and Caroline (born in 1965). In the 1960s the Llewellyns opened an art gallery in Adelaide, and became involved in the local anti-Vietnam War protest movement. In 1972 they divorced, and Kate Llewellyn returned to school, earning a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Adelaide in 1978.

While at university Llewellyn began writing poetry, helping to found the Friendly Street poetry society, and publishing her first book in 1975.