Kylie Mirmohamadi is a writer and academic from Melbourne/ Naarm.

Her first novel Diving, Falling was published by Scribe in September 2024.

Kylie was a recipient of the Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship in 2022 and her unpublished manuscripts have been highly commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (2021) and shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Award (2020).

She is the author of the critically-acclaimed The Digital Afterlives of Jane Austen: Janeites at the Keyboard (Palgrave Pivot, 2014) about the ever-expanding digital realm of Jane Austen fandom.

Her recent essays about the long afterlives of Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters have been published in Biofiction and Writers’ Afterlives, Wide Sargasso Sea at Fifty, The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen, and [forthcoming] The Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts.

She is also co-author of Reading the Garden (Melbourne University Publishing, 2008), and of Sensational Melbourne (ASP, 2011) and Colonial Dickens (ASP, 2012).

Kylie is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in English and Creative Writing at La Trobe University.