2012 Highlights
Ben Coes
Coup d'Etat
Ben Coes is the author of critically acclaimed Power Down. He is a former speechwriter for the George H.W. Bush Whitehouse, was a fellow at the JFK School of Government at Harvard, a campaign manager for Mitt Romney's run for governor in 2002, and is currently a partner in a private equity company out of Boston. He lives in Wellsley, Mass.
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Peter May
The Lewis Man
Peter May has over 1,000 television credits to his name, and is the author of fifteen novels, including two series: The Enzo Files and The China Thrillers. He is also the only Westerner to become an honorary member of the Chinese Crime Writers' Association.
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P.A. O'Reilly
The Fine Colour of Rust
Paddy O'Reilly is a writer from Melbourne. Her work has been published and broadcast widely both here and internationally. Her short story collection The End of the World garnered much review coverage in Australia and was shortlisted for several awards. Her debut novel, The Factory was broadcast in 15 episodes as the ABC Radio National Book Reading in 2009. She has also written screenplays. Paddy has spent several years living in Japan, working as a copywriter and translator.
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Felicity Young
A Dissection of Murder
Felicity Young was born in Germany, educated in the UK and settled in WA. She trained as a nurse, married young and, with three young children, her arts degree took ten years to complete. In 1990 the family moved from the city and established a sheep farm in Gidgegannup WA. Here she studied music, reared orphan kangaroos and started writing.
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Maggie Groff
Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute
Maggie Groff is the bestselling author of two non-fiction books, Mothers Behaving Badly and Hoax Cuisine. She has worked as a columnist for "Sunday Life" magazine in "The Sun-Herald" and extracts of her work have been published globally by "Readers Digest". She lives with her husband in northern New South Wales and is currently working on her next Scout Davis novel.
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Ron Rash
The Cove
Ron Rash is a multi-award-winning poet, short story writer and author of the internationally acclaimed and prize-winning novels Serena and One Foot in Eden. A PEN/Faulkner finalist for Serena, he is also a recipient of the O.Henry Prize and winner of the 2011 Frank O’Connor Award. He teaches at Western Carolina University.
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Josephine Pennicott
The Poet's Cottage
Josephine Pennicott is an award-winning writer. She won the Kerry Greenwood Domestic Malice Prize in 2003 and 2004. She has written three novels, Circle of Nine (2001), which named as one of the year’s best debut novels, Bride of the Stone (2003) and A Fire in the Shell (2004), which was shortlisted for Best Horror Novel in the 2005 Aurealis Awards. Born in Tasmania, she lives in Sydney with her partner David and their daughter Daisy.
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Chris McCourt
The Cleansing of Mahommed
Chris McCourt was born and educated in Sydney. After a brief career as an actress, she joined Crawford Productions and has since written for many celebrated Australian television dramas including GP, Fallen Angels, McLeod's Daughters, and All Saints. Currently, Chris is a writer on the coming ABC drama series The Doctor Blake Mysteries and is a regular writer on the hit series Packed to the Rafters. The Cleansing of Mahommed is her first novel. She lives in Balmain.
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Andrew Fukuda
The Hunt
Born in Manhattan and raised in Hong Kong, Andrew Fukuda is half-Chinese, half-Japanese. After earning a bachelor's degree in history from Cornell University, Fukuda worked in Manhattan's Chinatown with the immigrant teen community. That experience led to the writing of Crossing his debut novel that was selected by ALA Booklist as an Editor's Choice. The Hunt, his second novel, is the first in a new series. Before becoming a full time writer, Fukuda was a criminal prosecutor for seven years. He currently resides on Long Island, New York, with his family..
Deborah Forster
The Meaning of Grace
Deborah Foster grew up in Footscray, Melbourne. She worked as a staff and freelance journalist for many years and was a This Life columnist on The Age and The Sunday Age. Deborah Foster is married to Alan Kohler and they have three children. The Book Of Emmett, her first novel, received the Dobbie Prize and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literature Prize and the Miles Franklin Award.
Louise Limerick
Lucinda's Whirlwind
Louise Limerick was born in 1970. In 2004 she won the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelists Award for her first book, Dying for Cake, which was also chosen as an Australian Women’s Weekly Great Read. Currently, she divides her time between her family and her emerging career as a novelist. She lives in Brisbane with her husband, her three children and her two dogs – one of which may be the prototype for ‘that annoying dog’, Wilma. Lucinda’s Whirlwind is her second book.
