Margo Lanagan
Lanagan in 2007
Born	1960 (age 65–66) Waratah, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation	Writer Short story author Novelist
Nationality	Australian
Genre	Young adult fiction Fantasy Children's literature Short stories Horror
Notable works	Black Juice Tender Morsels Sea Hearts White Time
Notable awards	World Fantasy Award Printz Honor Award Shirley Jackson Award finalist

Margo Lanagan (born 1960 inWaratah, New South Wales) is an Australian writer ofshort stories andyoung adult fiction.

She grew up inRaymond Terrace and moved toMelbourne circa 1971/1972. After overseas travel, she moved toSydney 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 collectionBlack Juice won twoWorld Fantasy Awards and a 2006Printz Honor Award. It was published in Australia byAllen & Unwin, in the United Kingdom byGollancz in 2004, and in North America byHarperCollins in 2005. It includes the much-anthologized short story "Singing My Sister Down", which was nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards for the best short story.

Her short story collectionWhite Time (ISBN 0-06-074393-X), originally published in Australia byAllen & Unwin in 2000, was published in North America byHarperCollins in August 2006, after the success ofBlack Juice. It received recognition as a 2007Best Book for Young Adults from the American Library Association.^[2]

In addition toBlack Juice, a 2006 recipient,Tender Morsels also won a Printz Honor Award in 2009.

Tender Morsels was a 2008Shirley Jackson Award finalist, the novellaSea-Hearts (later expanded into a novel) was a 2009 finalist.Tender Morsels won a World Fantasy Award in 2009 for best novel,^[3] and was aLocus Award for Best Young Adult Book nominee.^[4]Sea-Hearts won theWorld Fantasy Award for Best Novella in 2010.^[5]

Lanagan is an alumna of theClarion West Writers Workshop, 1999, and returned as a teacher in 2011 and 2013.

As Melanie Carter:

• —— (1991).The Cappuccino Kid.Random House Australia.ISBN 9781863590181.

As Belinda Hayes:

• —— (1991).Star of the Show. Random House Australia.ISBN 9781863590198.
• —— (1991).The Girl in the Mirror.Bantam.ISBN 9781863590204.

As Gilly Lockwood:

• —— (1992).Nowhere Girl.Pan Macmillan.ISBN 9780330332477.
• —— (1993).Misty Blues.Pan Macmillan.ISBN 9780330274098.
• —— (1993).On the Wildside. Pan Macmillan.ISBN 9780330274401.

As Mandy McBride:

• —— (1990).Temper, Temper. Bantam.ISBN 9780947189952.
• —— (1992).New Girl. Australia:Random House.ISBN 9781863189965.
• —— (1992).Cover Girl. Australia: Random House.ISBN 9781863590488.

• —— (1991).WildGame. Sydney:Allen & Unwin.
• ——.The Tankermen. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
• ——.Walking Through Albert. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
• —— (2004).Treasure-Hunters of Quentaris. Lothian Books.
• —— (2007).The Singing Stones: A Tale of the Shimmaron. ABC Books.

• —— (1995).The Best Thing. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.ISBN 9781864488241.
• —— (1996).Touching Earth Lightly. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.ISBN 9781864488234.

• —— (2008).Tender Morsels.
• —— (2012).Sea Hearts.^[6]

• —— (2006).White Time (hardcover 1st ed.). New York:Eos.ISBN 9780060743932.
• —— (2004).Black Juice (paperback 1st ed.). Crows Nest:Allen & Unwin.ISBN 9781741750911.
• —— (2006).Red Spikes (paperback 1st ed.).Allen & Unwin.ISBN 9781741146578.
• —— (2011).Yellowcake (paperback 1st ed.).Allen & Unwin.ISBN 9781742374789.
• —— (2012).Cracklescape (paperback 1st ed.).Twelfth Planet Press.ISBN 9780987216243.

• "A Fine Magic" (2006) inEidolon I (ed.Jeremy G. Byrne,Jonathan Strahan)
• "Winkie" (2006) inRed Spikes
• "Machine Maid" (2008) in "Extraordinary Engines" (ed.Nick Gevers)
• "A Dark Red Love Knot" (2009) inHow Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity (ed. Michael Chart)
• "Ferryman" (2009) inFirebirds Soaring (ed. Sharyn November)
• "Mulberry Boys" (2011) inBlood and Other Cravings (ed.Ellen Datlow)
• "Blooding the Bride" (May 2012) inExotic Gothic 4 (ed.Danel Olson)
• "The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross" (2013) inAfter the End: Recent Apocalypses (ed. Paula Guran)
• "Mouth to Mouth" (2014) inNovascapes (ed. C.E. Page)

• Margo Lanagan and Tender Morsels, interview byJeff VanderMeer inClarkesworld Magazine, October 2008
• Margo Lanagan at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database
• Margo Lanagan onTwitter

• 1960 births
• Living people
• 20th-century Australian novelists
• 20th-century Australian short story writers
• 21st-century Australian novelists
• 21st-century Australian short story writers
• Australian children's writers
• Australian women children's writers
• Australian fantasy writers
• Australian women novelists
• Australian women short story writers
• Writers from Newcastle, New South Wales
• Australian women science fiction and fantasy writers
• Australian science fiction writers
• World Fantasy Award–winning writers
• Australian women horror writers
• Weird fiction writers
• 20th-century Australian women
• People from Raymond Terrace

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