Margo Lanagan
Margo Lanagan (born 1960 in
Biography
She grew up in Raymond Terrace and moved to Melbourne circa 1971/1972. After overseas travel, she moved to Sydney in 1982.[1]
Many of her books, including Young Adult (YA) fiction, were only published in Australia, but several have attracted worldwide attention. Her short story collection
Her short story collection
In addition to Black Juice, a 2006 recipient, Tender Morsels also won a Printz Honor Award in 2009.
Tender Morsels was a 2008
Lanagan is an alumna of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, 1999, and returned as a teacher in 2011 and 2013.
Bibliography
Novels
Teenage romances
As Melanie Carter:
- The Cappuccino Kid (1991). ISBN 9781863590181
As Belinda Hayes:
- Star of the Show. (1991). Random House Australia. ISBN 9781863590198
- The Girl in the Mirror. (1991). ISBN 9781863590204
As Gilly Lockwood:
- Nowhere Girl. (1992). ISBN 9780330332477
- Misty Blues. ISBN 9780330274098.
- On the Wildside. Pan Macmillan. 1993. ISBN 9780330274401.
As Mandy McBride:
- Temper, Temper. Bantam. 1990. ISBN 9780947189952.
- New Girl. Australia: ISBN 9781863189965.
- Cover Girl. Australia: Random House. 1992. ISBN 9781863590488.
As Margo Lanagan:
- Junior fiction
- WildGame. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 1991.
- The Tankermen. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
- Walking Through Albert. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
- Treasure-Hunters of Quentaris: Lothian Books. 2004.
- The Singing Stones: a tale of the shimmaron. ABC Books. 2007.
- Young adult fiction
- The Best Thing. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 1995. ISBN 9781864488241.
- Touching Earth Lightly. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 1996. ISBN 9781864488234.
- Fantasy fiction
- Tender Morsels (2008)
- Sea Hearts (Australia)/The Brides of Rollrock Island (UK and US)(2012)[6]
Short story collections
- White Time (2000). (2006). Eos/HarperCollins (US) 0060743948
- ISBN 9781741750911. HarperCollins (US) 9780060743901 (2005)
- Red Spikes (2006). Allen & Unwin ISBN 9781741146578
- Yellowcake (2011). Allen & Unwin ISBN 9781742374789
- Cracklescape (2012). Twelfth Planet Press ISBN 9780987216243
Short fiction
- "A Fine Magic" (2006) in Eidolon I (ed. Jeremy G. Byrne, Jonathan Strahan)
- "Winkie" (2006) in Red Spikes
- "Machine Maid" (2008) in "Extraordinary Engines" (ed. Nick Gevers)
- "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)
- "Blooding the Bride" (May 2012) in Exotic Gothic 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
- ^ Law, Michelle (September 2013). "Margo Lanagan is worldly and nice". The Lifted Brow (19): 65 – via Informit.
- ^ American Library Association (2007). "2007 Best Books for Young Adults". Archived from the original on 13 February 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- ^ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on 1 December 2010. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
- ^ "Locus YA Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
- ^ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "2010 World Fantasy Award Winners & Nominees". Archived from the original on 27 October 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
- ^ Samatar, Sofia (Reviewer) (14 May 2012). "Sea Hearts/The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan". Strange Horizons. Archived from the original on 12 June 2015.
External links
- Margo Lanagan and Tender Morsels, interview by Jeff VanderMeer in Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2008
- Margo Lanagan at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Margo Lanagan on Twitter