Kimberley is a writer, film creative and psychotherapist living on the lands of the Bundjalung nation, Northern NSW, Australia. A child of a Lithuanian refugee, Kimberley is fascinated by the intersections between storytelling, and its potential to affect social and personal change.

In 2024 Kimberley’s novel, The Lost House was shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Award and in 2019, awarded a residency at Byron Bay Writer’s Festival. In 2021 her screenplay, Elsewhere, awarded her a placement in the Write from Home Initiative (Australian International Screen Forum).

In film and television Kimberley was a co-producer on the flagship Australian Broadcasting Commission’s television panel show, Q&A, and co-development writer and development producer on Well Founded Fear (SBS TV Australia). She co-wrote and directed feature doco, Pieces of Me (ABC TV). Prior to this she was director and co-writer of Hassan and the Djinn (ABC Radio National) which was shortlisted for a Human Rights Award. She wrote and directed her first short film about sexual harassment in the NSW Police Force twenty years ago, which re-aired recently on ARTE, France

Kimberley is researching the gender storytelling gap using The Heroine’s Journey as an alternative narrative arc and producing this into both podcast & workshop, due for release, late 2024.