Born and raised in Singapore before moving to Sydney in 2013, KT Major’s creative work has won awards in Australia and overseas.

KT’s true love is fiction, which started at age twelve when she won a national story writing competition. In her first year dipping into Australia’s literary scene, KT won the 2022 Peter Cowan 600 Short Story Competition in the novice category, and placed in the top 30 for the SBS Emerging Writers’ Competition. In 2023, she won the Shire Resident’s Prize for Short Story in the Sutherland Shire Literary Competition and was shortlisted for the Scarlet Stiletto Award. She was long listed for the Furphy Literary Award and The Grieve Project in 2024.

In 2024, KT Major was awarded the Westwords-Varuna Emerging Writers’ Residency. The program is for four diverse, emerging writers from Western Sydney who display exceptional promise in their work. KT attended a six-day residency at Varuna National Writers’ House with industry mentors.

KT’s work is published in several anthologies and magazines, including Grieve 2022, BAD Western Sydney, The Big Issue, Eucalypt: A Tanka Journal, and Emergence by SBS & Hardie Grant.

KT is an alum of the Westwords Academy 2023. Other Academy alumni include AWGIE-winning screenwriter Ally Burnham and award-winning poet Paris Rosemont.

KT was a judge in the 2023 and 2024 WestWords Living Stories and Blacktown Mayoral Writing Competitions. She made her festival debut as a speaker at the Rose Scott Women Writer’s Festival 2023.

She studied communications, drama and performance at the world-class Nanyang Technological University. KT lives in Dharawal Country, Sydney with her husband, son, and overactive kelpie. She writes when everyone is finally asleep.

KT is working on a crime novel that mixes genres and incorporates her experiences from Asia and Australia.