Kyra Giorgi (born 1977) is an Australian author and historian.
Kyra Giorgi was born in Perth Western AustraliaâÂÂher mother is the novelist Gail Jones. Giorgi took her PhD in history from La Trobe University in 2012 with the thesis - Saudade, lÃÂtost, hüzün: cultural identity and melancholic fatalism on the margins of Europe.
The Circle and the Equator was her first book of fiction, and was Highly Commended in the inaugural Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.
At the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards, her work The Circle and the Equator won the University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection - Steele Rudd Award.