Bios
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Since Sean Williams work first appeared in print in the early 1990s, he has published over sixty short stories, four collections, and twenty-two novels aimed at adult, young adult and child readers, making him one of Australia's most prolific and diverse authors. His work has appeared in numerous languages, on-line, and in spoken word editions, and has been listed more than once on the New York Times-bestseller lists. Multiple winner of both Ditmar and Aurealis awards for science fiction, fantasy and horror, he also works in the Doctor Who and Star Wars universes and has a long list of collaborations with friend Shane Dix behind him. He is a former winner and now a judge of the international Writers of the Future Contest. |
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Margo Lanagan has published poetry, novels and speculative fiction short stories for adult, young adult and junior readers. Her collection, Black Juice, won two World Fantasy Awards, a Victorian Premier's Award, two Ditmars and two Aurealis Awards, and was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and made an honour book in the American Library Association’s Michael L. Printz Award. The story ‘Wooden Bride’ was shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr Award, and ‘Singing My Sister Down’ was nominated for many other awards, including a Nebula and a Hugo. Her third collection, Red Spikes, published in Australia in October 2006, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, has been nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Collection and is the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers. Margo lives in Sydney. She has just completed a fantasy novel, Tender Morsels, which will be published in late 2008. Margo's blog is at http://amongamidwhile.blogspot.com/ |
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Jack Dann is a multiple-award winning author who has written or edited over seventy books, including the international bestseller The Memory Cathedral; The Man Who Melted; The Silent, a novel of the Civil War; The Rebel: An Imagined Life of James Dean; and a number of short story collections: Timetipping, Jubilee, Visitations, The Fiction Factory, and Promised Land, a companion volume to The Rebel. Dann lives in Australia on a farm overlooking the sea and “commutes” back and forth to Los Angeles and New York. He is a recipient of the Nebula Award, the Aurealis Award, the Ditmar Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Peter McNamara Achievement Award, and the Premios Gilgamés de Narrativa Fantastica award. Dann was co-editor of the groundbreaking anthology of Australian stories, Dreaming Down-Under, which won the World Fantasy Award in 1999. He edits the Magic Tales anthology series with Gardner Dozois; and his anthology, Gathering the Bones, of which he is a co-editor, was included in Library Journal’s Best Genre Fiction of 2003 and was shortlisted for The World Fantasy Award. He is currently working on Dreaming Again. His website can be found at www.jackdann.com |
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Trent Jamieson is a short story writer and novelist. He has published numerous short stories in Australia, the US, the UK and in Europe. His collection Reserved for Travelling Shows was published by Prime Books in 2005. His children's book The City and the Stony Stars - part of the Lost Shimmaron series - was published by ABC Books in 2007. Trent has won two prestigious Aurealis Awards for his work. |
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Jeff VanderMeer is a multiple-award winning fantasy author with books published in over 20 countries. VanderMeer has collaborated on short films with rock groups like The Church, is in the preliminary stages of collaboration with |
