About Kylie
Kylie Stevenson has been working as a journalist since 2001, her articles appearing in National Geographic, The Guardian Australia, The Australian, The Weekend Australian Magazine, The Saturday Paper and numerous news, lifestyle and travel publications. She has spent the last 15 years working in the Northern Territory, eight of them at the iconic, croc-obsessed Northern Territory News, where she was Editor of the Sunday Territorian.
She has also held production roles with ABC Radio Darwin and with live storytelling event SPUN: True Stories Told in the Territory. Among the storytellers she worked with were Charlie and Emma King, Meg Mango, Varunika Ruwanpura, Bernie Shields and David Taylor.
In 2018, along with Caroline Graham, she created the podcast Lost in Larrimah, for which they won a Walkley Award and an NT Media Award. Kylie and Caroline’s book Larrimah, an investigation of a missing man, a dying town and the myth of the Australian outback, was released in 2021 with Allen & Unwin.
In 2023, working with other independent journalists, Kylie spent a year researching an investigative series uncovering inequities in education in the Northern Territory. The NT Schools in Crisis series was published in The Australian.
Kylie is currently undertaking a Doctorate of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong, and to fund this folly, she continues freelance writing.
She lives on Larrakia country in Darwin, with her husband Michael, son Eddie and their dog Walter.
Awards:
2022 Shortlist for Ned Kelly Awards for Best True Crime
2022 Shortlist for Davitt Awards for Non-fiction Crime Book and Debut Crime Book
2022 Shortlist for Indie Book Awards in Non-Fiction category
2021 NT Media Award Best Feature Writing for Australia’s secret war in Borneo
2020 NT Media Award Best Feature Writing (with Tamara Howie) for The Land the NDIS Forgot
2020 NT Media Award Indigenous Affairs Reporting (with Tamara Howie) for The Land the NDIS Forgot
2018 Walkley Award Radio/Audio Feature (with Caroline Graham) for Lost in Larrimah
2018 NT Media Award Best Current Affairs or Feature TV/Radio (with Caroline Graham) for Lost in Larrimah
2017 NT Literary Award Creative Non-Fiction for Notes on a Dying Town