Margo Lanagan (born 1960 in

Waratah, New South Wales Waratah is a north-western residential suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, from Newcastle's central business district and bounded to the north by the Main North railway line. Waratah station was opened in 1858 and is served by N ...

) is an Australian writer of

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and

young adult fiction Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction written for readers from 12 to 18 years of age. While the genre is primarily targeted at adolescents, approximately half of YA readers are adults. The subject matter and genres of YA correlate ...

Biography

She grew up in

Raymond Terrace Raymond Terrace is a town in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, about by road north of Newcastle on the Pacific Highway. Established in 1837 it is situated at the confluence of the Hunter and Williams rivers. The town was nam ...

and moved to

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

circa 1971/1972. After overseas travel, she moved to Sydney in 1982. Many of her books, including Young Adult (YA) fiction, were only published in Australia, but several have attracted worldwide attention. Her short story collection ''

Black Juice ''Black Juice'' is the first collection of short stories by Australian writer Margo Lanagan. It was released in paperback by Allen and Unwin in 2004, and features the author's widely anthologised short story "Singing My Sister Down", which won ...

'' won two

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and a 2006 Printz Honor Award. It was published in Australia by Allen & Unwin, in the United Kingdom by Gollancz in 2004, and in North America by

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in 2005. It includes the much-anthologized short story "

Singing My Sister Down "Singing My Sister Down" is a 2004 fantasy fiction, fantasy short story by Australian writer Margo Lanagan. Background "Singing My Sister Down" was first published in 2004 in the author's first collection of short stories, ''Black Juice'' and pu ...

", which was nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards for the best short story. Her short story collection '' White Time'' (), originally published in Australia by Allen & Unwin in 2000, was published in North America by

in August 2006, after the success of ''Black Juice''. It received recognition as a 2007 Best Book for Young Adults from the American Library Association. In addition to ''Black Juice'', a 2006 recipient, '' Tender Morsels'' also won a Printz Honor Award in 2009. ''Tender Morsels'' was a 2008

Shirley Jackson Award The Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing. These awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic are presented a ...

finalist, the novella ''Sea-Hearts'' (later expanded into a novel) was a 2009 finalist. ''Tender Morsels'' won a World Fantasy Award in 2009 for best novel, and was a

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nominee. ''Sea-Hearts'' won the

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in 2010. Lanagan is an alumna of the

Clarion West Writers Workshop Clarion West Writers Workshop is an intensive six-week program for writers preparing for professional careers in science fiction and fantasy. It runs annually from late June through the end of July. The workshop is limited to 18 students per year. ...

, 1999, and returned as a teacher in 2011 and 2013.

Bibliography

Novels

Teenage romances

As Melanie Carter: * ''The Cappuccino Kid'' (1991).

Random House Australia Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by Germ ...

. As Belinda Hayes: * ''Star of the Show''. (1991). Random House Australia. * ''The Girl in the Mirror''. (1991). Bantam. As Gilly Lockwood: * ''Nowhere Girl''. (1992).

Pan Macmillan Pan Books is a publishing imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany. Pan Books began as an independent publisher, es ...

. * * As Mandy McBride: * * * As Margo Lanagan: ;Junior fiction * * * * ''Treasure-Hunters of Quentaris'': Lothian Books. 2004. * ''The Singing Stones: a tale of the shimmaron.'' ABC Books. 2007. ;Young adult fiction * * ;Fantasy fiction * '' Tender Morsels'' (2008) * ''Sea Hearts'' (Australia)/''The Brides of Rollrock Island'' (UK and US)(2012)

Short story collections

* '' White Time'' (2000). (2006). Eos/HarperCollins (US) 0060743948 * ''

'' (2004). Allen & Unwin (Australia) . HarperCollins (US) 9780060743901 (2005) * ''Red Spikes'' (2006). Allen & Unwin * ''Yellowcake'' (2011). Allen & Unwin * ''Cracklescape'' (2012). Twelfth Planet Press

Short fiction

*" A Fine Magic" (2006) in ''

Eidolon I ''Eidolon I'' is a 2006 speculative fiction anthology edited by Jonathan Strahan and Jeremy G. Byrne. Background ''Eidolon I'' was first published in 2006 by Eidolon Books in trade paperback format. It was a short-list nominee for the 2007 Di ...

'' (ed.

Jeremy G. Byrne Jeremy may refer to: * Jeremy (given name), a given name * Jérémy, a French given name * ''Jeremy'' (film), a 1973 film * "Jeremy" (song), a song by Pearl Jam * Jeremy (snail), a left-coiled garden snail that died in 2017 * ''Jeremy'', a 1919 ...

Jonathan Strahan Jonathan Strahan (born 1964, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an editor and publisher of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a ...

) *"Winkie" (2006) in ''Red Spikes'' *"Machine Maid" (2008) in " Extraordinary Engines" (ed.

Nick Gevers Nick Gevers (born 1965) is a South African science fiction editor and critic, whose work has appeared in ''The Washington Post Book World'', '' Interzone'', Scifi.com, SF Site, ''The New York Review of Science Fiction'' and ''Nova Express''. H ...

) *"A Dark Red Love Knot" (2009) in '' How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity'' (ed. Michael Chart) *"Ferryman" (2009) in ''Firebirds Soaring'' (ed. Sharyn November) *"Mulberry Boys" (2011) in ''Blood and Other Cravings'' (ed.

Ellen Datlow Ellen Datlow (born December 31, 1949) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and anthologist. She is a winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award (Horror Writers Association). Career Datlow began her career ...

) *"Blooding the Bride" (May 2012) in ''

Exotic Gothic ''Exotic Gothic'' is an anthology series of original short fiction and novel excerpts in the gothic, horror and fantasy genres. A recipient of the World Fantasy Award and Shirley Jackson Awards, it is conceptualized and edited by Danel Olson, a pr ...

4'' (ed. Danel Olson) *"The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross" (2013) in ''After the End: Recent Apocalypses'' (ed. Paula Guran) *"Mouth to Mouth" (2014) in ''Novascapes'' (ed. C.E. Page)

References

External links

Margo Lanagan and Tender Morsels
interview by Jeff VanderMeer in

Clarkesworld Magazine ''Clarkesworld Magazine'' (ISSN 1937-7843) is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It released its first issue October 1, 2006 and has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Elizabe ...

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