Kate Clinch

Kate Clinch is a former GP whose medical knowledge proved invaluable in writing her debut novel, Every Inch a Saint: a Novel about Eileen O’Connor, Australia’s Second Saint-in-Waiting which was published in April 2026. Eileen, desperately ill and partially paralysed by a tuberculosis infection in her spine, was unstoppable in her commitment to set up a home nursing organisation for the sick in Sydney’s slums during World War I. Her inspirational legacy of hope and compassion is alive today.

Kate’s unpublished first novel longlisted for the 2020 Richell Prize.

She lives in Adelaide.