About

Kylie Eklund-Denman

Kylie Eklund-Denman is an Australian memoir, travel, and fiction writer, and a passionate Japanophile. She is also a blogger, epicurean, forest walker, bird watcher, plant collector, citizen scientist, and a qualified sake sommelier. Her children think she spends an unnatural amount of time looking at and photographing fungi.

Kylie loves reading and, as a child, was often found under a table or hanging upside down from the couch, with her nose in a book. Although her preferred reading positions have altered with age, she still loses herself entirely in the pages. She often cries when she’s rudely torn from the world of the narrative by the book ending. 

An avid traveller, Kylie enjoys exploring language, communication, and cultural learning through travel and food. Her creative values revolve around deep connection with readers through storytelling, and she writes in the hope that one day she will find answers to her many questions.

Kylie has written a memoir about finding meaning in Japanese culture after her husband’s unexpected suicide. She has also been writing a blog about Japan for 11 years. She’s currently working on a story of historical magical realism, her first work of fiction. 

Kylie’s memoir has been longlisted in the 2025 Hawkeye Development Prize, and a chapter was shortlisted in the 2024 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing. In 2023, she completed the Faber Writing Academy’s Writing the Narrative Nonfiction course.

Kylie lives in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges, just outside Melbourne with her partner-in-crime, lots of kids, Genji, a part Bengal purring assassin, and a ridiculously spoiled Moodle called Yoki-san.

The more that you read,
the more things you will know,
The more that you learn,
the more places you’ll go”

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page”

Saint Augustine