Liana Kim Skrzypczak is a Korean-Australian Adoptee to a post WWII Polish migrant family. Her writing is inspired by extraordinary people, historical hardship, and provocative settings and can be found in Australian literary magazines: Meanjin Quarterly, Island Magazine, Westerly Magazine and The Big Issue.
Liana was the inaugural winner of the Hachette Mentoring Program and was mentored by New York Times best-selling novelist, Sean Williams. Most recently, she was a writer’s room consultant on the Australian Broadcasting Network Television dramedy ‘White Fever’ about a Korean-adoptee attempting to ‘decolonise her libido’ now streaming on ABC iView.
Her debut novel, LORE OF GON, was supported in its early stages of development by the prestigious Wheelers Centre for Writing’s Kat Muscat Fellowship for its themes of DEFIANCE, EMPATHY and FEMINISM. With this fellowship, Liana was able to conduct in-country research into the story’s history, mythology, and setting.
She lives in Melbourne with her partner-in-crime, who also happens to be a creative artist (actor), and their delightful fur-baby who keeps them sane.