Meet the KSP Team
Lisa Wolstenholme
Chairperson
Lisa is a multi-published author of contemporary fiction. She was previously on the KSP foundation’s Board of Management and also ran the Wild Weeds Press trial service for the centre. She then took a break from the Board and went on to co-direct another small publishing company before taking the helm of Dragonfly Publishing.
Alia Bath
Vice Chairperson
Alia is a writer and cellist who has made her home in the Perth hills. Her main interest as a writer is in speculative fiction, with a few recent diversions into epic poetry and graphic novels. With a degree in communications and a background in project management, she is trying to manage herself into publication. If only she could stop reading for long enough she might make it happen.
Jake Liddelow
Treasurer
Jake joined the KSP team in 2019. He is currently a final year commerce student with majors in finance and accounting at the University of Western Australia.
Mardi May
Board of Management
Mardi has facilitated the Social History Writing Group (Past Tense) since its inception in 2002, and the Poetry Group (Poets@KSP) since 2008. She has published ten books of poetry and social history, and won numerous awards in several genres. Each year she edits the anthologies for her groups and organises selection panels for KSP's Writer-in-Residence program.
Rebekah Sheedy
Board of Management
Rebekah has been a part of the KSP community since October 2018 and was previously with Wild Weeds Press trial. Since 2021, she has been the project manager at Dragonfly Publishing. ​ She has a Bachelor of Arts (Professional Writing and Publishing & Literary and Cultural Studies) and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Curtin University and completed her Graduate Certificate in Editing and Electronic Publishing at Macquire University in 2023.
Deborah Broad
Board of Management
Deb Broad is a working-class woman descended from the Ballardong Nation and Irish Immigrants. Her interests include researching the cultural similarities existing between her ancestor’s beliefs and writing poetry focussed on local places and people. Debs won a micro residency from WA poets Inc. (2023) and was the recipient of the Beverley Gallop Scholarship (2021-2023). Debs recently graduated with honours in a Batchelor of Arts from U.W.A. and is currently studying a Master of Arts majoring in creative writing at Curtin.
Prof Glen Phillips
Patron
Professor Glen Phillips is an internationally known poet, fiction writer, teacher and Director of the Landscape Centre at Edith Cowan University. At the first KSP Committee Meeting on 14 August 1985, Glen was elected as Chairperson. Glen currently plays an active role in guiding the Board of Management as needed and in supporting the Centre’s activities.
Sofija Stevanovic
Coordinator
Sofija is a neurodivergent, queer writer living and studying on the unceded lands of Whadjuk Noongar people. She joined the KSP team after deciding to finally pursue a life she dreamed of since she can remember. She holds a Bachelor of Marketing and PR and is currently doing her Master of Arts in Creative Writing through Curtin University. When not working or writing about the wild and wonderful curiosities of neurodiverse existence she spends time reading, binging anime and drinking excessive amounts of coffee with her biggest supporters, cockatiels Phineas and Birb, on her shoulders.
Emma Hassner
Administration and Residency Officer
​Emma has been an active volunteer within the Shire of Mundaring since 2011 and a KSP member since 2019. After facilitating the NWC writing group for 2023 she started the Sugar to Spice romance writing group in February 2024. When she isn’t running around after her three children, two dogs and husband, she can be found at KSP writing or supporting writers on their creative journey.
Soraya Acosta
Youth Tutor
​Soraya is a romantasy writer from Latin America, Venezuela, who enjoys writing in Spanish, her native language, and in English. She is a participant of the Emerging Writers Program 2024-2025 sponsored by Writing WA, has taught Architecture at University Rafael Urdaneta for 3 years, facilitated the Novel Writers Collective group at Katharine Susannah Pritchard Writers’ Centre (KSP), facilitated writing workshops at Fellowship of Australian Writers WA (FAWWA), and has co-directed a writing academy for Latin American writers in Australia (LAWA). She is currently studying a Master of Creative Writing at Curtin University with looks to doing a PhD.
Shannon Britza
Bookkeeper and Heritage Collection Officer
Shannon joined the KSP team as a volunteer newsletter editor in 2012 and went on to become the longest-serving employee in the Centre's history, as the Coordinator and then CEO from 2013-2022. She holds a Bachelor of Writing from Edith Cowan University, is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society, and won the Talus Prize for fiction in 2011. She has worked as a second-hand book-seller, freelance editor, and is a published short-fiction author. In 2022 she was awarded a Life Membership in recognition of her service to the KSP Foundation.
Fern Pendragon
Volunteer gardener
Fern has volunteered at the KSP Writers' Centre since 2014, and has made an incredible difference in developing the heritage-listed KSP gardens. She coordinates work teams and provides training for other garden volunteers. She has also developed a unique heritage garden tour. A former nursery manager and member of Mundaring in Transition, Fern brings a wealth of knowledge, passion and warmth to the Centre. In 2015 she was awarded KSP Volunteer of the Year in recognition of her work.
KSP Life Members
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Charles Staples (RIP)
Glen Phillips
Sally Clarke (RIP)
Christopher Prince
Eris Macdonald
Christopher Oakeley
Collin O’Brien (RIP)
Mardi May
Shannon Britza
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KSP Committees
Gardening Committee
Fern Pendragon
Wooroloo Prison Farm
Literary Advisory Committee
Mardi May
Glen Phillips
Guy Salvidge
Elizabeth Lewis
Josephine Taylor
Emily Paull