Bio
I am a writer. My most recent book, Team Human, is co-written with the fabulous Sarah Rees Brennan, and is about Mel Duan whose best friend falls in love with a vampire. Mel strongly believes that friends don’t let friends date vampires.
My previous novel, Liar, is kind of self explanatory, i.e. it’s about a liar. I’m currently writing a way-too-big novel set in New York City in the 1930s, which involves having to wear 1930s-style clothes, listen to lots of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Robert Johnson, and watch movies like The Thin Man and Easy Living and Jewel Robbery over and over. Not to mention learning how to lindy hop. Oh, how I suffer!
I am also the co-editor with Holly Black of the Zombies versus Unicorns anthology and the author of How to Ditch Your Fairy and the Magic or Madness trilogy. I’ve edited a scholarly collection of feminist science fiction in the twentieth century, Daughters of Earth and a scholary tome, the Battle of The Sexes in Science Fiction.
I’ve written a short film about the legend of King Midas, as well as essays on American science fiction culture in the 1940s and 1950s, with detours into Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the occasional short story. I co-wrote a radio show about relationship breakups with Ellen Kushner.
I am a Sydney girl. Though I have lived in other parts of Australia, courtesy of my anthropologist parents, including Newcastle, Canberra, and two small Aboriginal settlements in the Northern Territory. I now live in Sydney and sometimes New York City.
To find out more about me you can read these interviews or have a squizz at my faq. I also have a twitter feed and a blog.