Karen Foxlee
Encyclopedia
Life
After training and working as a nurse for most of her adult life, she graduated from the University of the Sunshine CoastUniversity of the Sunshine Coast
The University of the Sunshine Coast is a public university based on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Having opened in 1996 as the Sunshine Coast University College with 524 students, the institution was renamed the University of the Sunshine Coast in 1999. In 2011, the student body was...
with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2005, in creative writing. Her first novel The Anatomy of Wings was originally published in 2008, by the University of Queensland Press
University of Queensland Press
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, and has since been published in the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and Canada.
Awards and nominations
- 2008 - Commonwealth Writers' PrizeCommonwealth Writers' PrizeCommonwealth Writers is an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth. It's flagship are two literary awards and a website...
(Best First Book in the South East Asia and South Pacific Region) for The Anatomy of Wings - 2008 - Dobbie Encouragement Award for The Anatomy of Wings
- 2006 - Queensland Premier's Literary Award (Best emerging author)
External links
- Fiction: The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee, MC Reviews,