Josh Kemp is an author of Australian gothic and crime fiction. His debut novel, Banjawarn, was the winner of the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award, the 2022 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction and the 2023 Western Australian Premier’s Prize for Best Emerging Writer. Jasper Cliff is his second novel. He lives in the Sout West of WA but finds himself drawn, over and over again, to the red dirt of the state’s north.
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