 She visits schools to speak to students about being a writer and to take workshops and has often appeared at literary festivals such as the New Zealand Mountain Film and Book Festival at Wanaka in 2016, the Storylines National Children's Writers and Illustrators' Hui in 2017, the Tamar Valley Writers Festival in Tasmania in 2018 and the National Writers Forum in 2018.After more than 25 years of hiding her true identity, Mewburn told her wife, Marion, she was transgender.With Marion's support, Kyle travelled to Argentina in 2017 to receive facial feminisation surgery.