Margo Lanagan

Margo Lanagan (born 1960) in Waratah, New South Wales is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction.

Many of her books, including Young Adult (YA) fiction, were only published in Australia. Recently, several of her books have attracted worldwide attention. Her short story collection Black Juice won two World Fantasy Awards and a 2006 Printz Honor Award. It was published in Australia by Allen & Unwin and the United Kingdom by Gollancz in 2004, and in North America by HarperCollins 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 best short story.

Her short story collection White Time (ISBN 0-06-074393-X), originally published in Australia by Allen & Unwin in 2000, was published in North America by HarperCollins in August 2006, after the success of Black Juice. It received recognition as a 2007 Best Book for Young Adults from the American Library Association.

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

Tender Morsels was a 2008 Shirley Jackson Award finalist Sea-Hearts was a 2009 finalist. Tender Morsels won a World Fantasy Award in 2009 for best Novel., and a Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book nominee. Sea-Hearts won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella in 2010.

Lanagan is an alumna of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, 1999, and returns as a teacher in 2011.

Bibliography

Novels

Teenage romances

As Melanie Carter:

• The Cappuccino Kid (1991). Random House Australia. ISBN 1863590188, 9781863590181

As Belinda Hayes:

• Star of the Show. (1991). Random House Australia. ISBN 1863590196, 9781863590198
• The Girl in the Mirror. (1991). Bantam. ISBN 186359020X, 9781863590204

As Gilly Lockwood:

• Nowhere Girl. (1992). Pan Macmillan. ISBN 0330332473, 9780330332477
• Misty Blues. (1993). Pan Macmillan. ISBN 0330274090, 9780330274098
• On the Wildside. (1993). Pan Macmillan. ISBN 0330274406, 9780330274401

As Mandy McBride:

• Temper, Temper. (1990). Bantam. ISBN 0947189955, 9780947189952
• New Girl. (1992). Random House Australia. ISBN 1863189963, 9781863189965
• Cover Girl. (1992). Random House Australia. ISBN 186359048X, 9781863590488

As Margo Lanagan:

Junior fiction

• WildGame. (1991). Allen & Unwin, Sydney. ISBN 1863730699, 9781863730693
• The Tankermen. Allen & Unwin, Sydney. ISBN to come.]
• Walking Through Albert. Allen & Unwin, Sydney. ISBN to come]
• Treasure-Hunters of Quentaris.
• The Singing Stones.

Young adult fiction

• The Best Thing. (1995). Allen & Unwin, Sydney. ISBN 1864488247, 9781864488241
• Touching Earth Lightly. (1995). Allen & Unwin, Sydney. ISBN 1864488239, 9781864488234

Fantasy fiction

• Tender Morsels. (2008). Allen & Unwin, Sydney. ISBN 1741758165, 9781741758160
• Sea Hearts/The Brides of Rollrock Island (2011)

Short story collections

• White Time (2000)
• Black Juice (2004; ISBN 0-06-074392-1)
• Red Spikes (2006)
• Yellowcake (2011)

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)
• "Mulberry Boys" (2011) in Blood and Other Cravings (ed. Ellen Datlow)
• "Blooding the Bride" (May 2012) in Exotic Gothic 4 (ed. Danel Olson)

External links

• Margo Lanagan and Tender Morsels, interview by Jeff VanderMeer in Clarkesworld Magazine, October 2008
• Margo Lanagan at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database