Margo Lanagan is an internationally acclaimed writer of novels and short stories. She has worked as a kitchen hand, encyclopaedia seller, freelance book editor and technical writer. Her short story collection Black Juice (2004) won a Victorian Premier’s Award for Young Adult Fiction in her native Australia, as well as two World Fantasy Awards and a Michael L. Printz Honor, for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, in the United States. Her novel Tender Morsels won a World Fantasy Award and was a Michael L. Printz Honor Book, and her novella “Sea-Hearts” also won a World Fantasy Award. She has a new collection of stories, Yellowcake (Allen & Unwin, 2011), and a new novel, Watered Silk, based on “Sea-Hearts”, is due out in September. Margo lives in Sydney.

Margo is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts