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For the British writer and biographer, see Maria Theresa Lewis. For the Union Civil War soldier, see Maria Lewis (soldier). For the mistress of Alexander Hamilton, see Maria Reynolds.
Maria Lewis at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne.

Maria Lewis
BornNew Zealand
OccupationAuthor, journalist, presenter
NationalityAustralian/New Zealand
GenreFantasy fiction
Website
marialewis.com.au

Maria Lewis is an author, screenwriter and pop culture commentator from Australia.

Early life and education

Lewis was born in New Zealand on the South Island[1] before moving to the Gold Coast, Queensland.

Career

She started her journalism career as a teenager at the Gold Coast Bulletin[2] covering the crime and police beat. Her work on pop culture has appeared in publications such as Empire Magazine, Penthouse, Junkee, New York Post, The Guardian, SFX Magazine, The Daily Mail, Film Ink, i09, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, SBS, Herald Sun, BuzzFeed, ABC, Screen Australia, WHO Weekly and Bloody Disgusting.

Lewis was known for her role as a panelist, presenter, writer and producer[3] on SBS Viceland's nightly news program The Feed[4] and is an ambassador for the Australian Stroke Foundation[5] after surviving a Transient ischemic attack (TIA) when she was twenty-two.[6][7] She was the writer, researcher, host and producer of the audio documentaries Josie and the Podcats - which looked at the 2001 cult film, Josie and the Pussycats[8] - and the award-winning series The Phantom Never Dies[9] about the world’s first superhero, The Phantom. She primarily works as a screenwriter for film and television, including projects for AMC, Netflix, SBS, Ubisoft, ABC, Stan, DC Comics and many more. Her Aurealis Award and Ditmar Award-nominated short story The House That Hungers was adapted into a short film starring Kimie Tsuakoshi in the lead role, with Lewis serving as writer, director, and producer.[10]

Writing

Lewis is the author of several books and short stories. Her debut novel Who's Afraid? was published globally in 2015,[11] followed by its sequel Who's Afraid Too?. Both follow protagonist Tommi Grayson from Dundee, Scotland,[12] a female werewolf, and are supposed to be a twist on Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as well as "examining the feminine grotesque and the idea of female monsters".[13] Who's Afraid Too? was nominated for an Aurealis Award in 2018 for Best Horror Novel.[14] In 2017, it was reported[15] that Who's Afraid? was optioned for television by Queensland production company Hoodlum Entertainment.[16] Her third novel It Came From The Deep[17] was published in 2017, which follows a teenager who discovers a merman living in a lake on the Gold Coast, Australia,[18] and included a narrative podcast adaptation of the same name.

Her fourth book, The Witch Who Courted Death,[19] was published in 2018 and told the origin story of Corvossier 'Casper' von Klitzing and her brother Barastin, who were both first introduced in Who's Afraid?[20] In May 2019, it won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel.[21] Her follow-up novel about a family of banshee sisters - The Wailing Woman - was the fifth book in the Supernatural Sisters series[22] and was also nominated for the Best Fantasy Novel Aurealis Award in 2020. Her sixth and seventh novels - Who's Still Afraid? and The Rose Daughter - were published in 2020 and 2021 respectively, with the latter nominated for Best Fantasy Novel at the 2022 Aurealis Awards.[23] Her Fierce Creatures was published in 2022 and is the eighth and final book to conclude the Supernatural Sisters series.[24]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Who's Afraid? (Lewis: December 12, 2015: Hachette Australia) (Lewis: July 14, 2016: Piatkus UK)[25]
  • Who's Afraid Too? (Lewis: Jan 21, 2017: Hachette Australia) (Lewis: July 14, 2017: Piatkus UK)[26]
  • It Came From The Deep (Lewis: October 21, 2017: IngramSpark)[27]
  • The Witch Who Courted Death (Lewis: October 31, 2018: Hachette Australia) (Lewis: March 9, 2019: Piatkus UK)[28]
  • The Wailing Woman (Lewis: November 1, 2019: Hachette Australia) (Lewis: March 9, 2020: Piatkus UK)[29]
  • Who's Still Afraid? (Lewis: October 21, 2020: IngramSpark)[30]
  • The Rose Daughter (Lewis: April 6, 2021: Hachette Australia) (Lewis: October 21, 2021: Piatkus UK)[31]
  • Her Fierce Creatures (Lewis: March 13, 2022: Hachette Australia) (Lewis: October 4, 2022: Piatkus UK)[32]

Short Stories

  • Hot Stuff: Surfing Love (Caruso, Lewis, Sinclair. Woods: Jan 1, 2016: HarperCollins Publishers Australia)[33]
  • Doing It: A Sex Positive Anthology (Pickering, Ford, Lewis et al: August 29, 2016: University Of Queensland Press)[34]
  • And Then... The Great Big Book Of Awesome Adventure Tales: Volume 2 (Goodman, Lewis, Nette et al.: August 7, 2017: Clan Destine Press)[35]
  • Tales From Kayfabia: The Unfortunate Origins of Jimmy Havoc Audio Short Story (Lewis: November 2, 2018: Conco and the Fudge)[36]
  • The House That Hungers (Lewis: November 13, 2021: Aurealis #146)[37]
  • Damnation Games (Baxter, Lee, Anderton, Lewis et al: November 1, 2022: Clan Destine Press)[38]

References

  1. ^ "Matter Of Life And Death Says Author". Gold Coast Bulletin.
  2. ^ "Author Lets Out Werewolf Inside". Sunshine Coast Daily.
  3. ^ "Maria Lewis". IMDB.
  4. ^ "Armoured boobs and calling nonsense on ingrained sexism in fantasy".
  5. ^ "Maria Lewis". Australian Stroke Foundation.
  6. ^ "The Stroke Patients Slipping Through The Cracks". MJA InSight.
  7. ^ "Young Stroke Survivors In Australia". SBS Australia.
  8. ^ Wells, Peter (7 July 2020). "Pussycats podcast dives deep on a cult classic flop". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  9. ^ "Behind the Mask of the Vigilante That Helped Define More Than Just Future Superheroes". Gizmodo Australia. 20 February 2022. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  10. ^ O'Brien, Kerrie (18 June 2021). "Recasting monsters as women: lunch with Maria Lewis". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  11. ^ "Who's afraid of Harry Potter not former Sydney Confidential staffer Maria Lewes".
  12. ^ "Voyage of discovery as Kiwi author sets novel in Scottish city she'd never even visited". The Daily Record.
  13. ^ "Feminism, She-Hulk and werewolves: An interview with Maria Lewis".
  14. ^ "Aurealis Awards 2017 Shortlist". Hachette Australia.
  15. ^ "Who's Afraid? To Become A TV Series". Dark Horizons.
  16. ^ "Who's Afraid? Optioned For TV". Books And Publishing.
  17. ^ "Best-Selling Feminist Author Maria Lewis Releases New Book 'It Came From The Deep'". GirlTalkHQ.
  18. ^ "Maria Lewis Is Back From The Deep". 2SER 107.3FM.
  19. ^ "Horror author Maria Lewis on witches and werewolves". The West Australian. 29 October 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  20. ^ duffythewriter (17 November 2018). "Interview with Maria Lewis about her new novel The Witch Who Courted Death". Duffy The Writer. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  21. ^ Mem: 34921376. "Aurealis Awards 2018 announced | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 28 October 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  22. ^ Smith, Jayse (27 June 2019). "Q&A: Maria Lewis & Her Upcoming Book 'The Wailing Woman'". The Nerd Daily. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  23. ^ aaconvenor (5 April 2022). "2021 Aurealis Awards Shortlist Announcement". Aurealis Awards. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  24. ^ "Piatkus secures rights to finale in Supernatural Sisters series | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  25. ^ "Who's Afraid?". Little Brown Book Group.
  26. ^ "Who's Afraid Too?". Little Brown Books.
  27. ^ "It Came From The Deep". Amazon.
  28. ^ Maria Lewis - The Witch Who Courted Death - Little, Brown Book Group.
  29. ^ The Wailing Woman. 10 April 2019.
  30. ^ "Who's Still Afraid? : Maria Lewis : 9780648971306". www.bookdepository.com. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  31. ^ "The Rose Daughter: an enchanting feminist fantasy from the winner of the 2019 Aurealis Award by Maria Lewis - Books". www.hachette.com.au. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  32. ^ Her Fierce Creatures. 7 April 2021. ISBN 978-0-349-42725-6.
  33. ^ "Hot Stuff: Surfing Love". Harper Collins.
  34. ^ "Doing It". University Of Queensland Press.
  35. ^ "And Then..." Clan Destine Press.
  36. ^ Toons, Gooney. "Tales From Kayfabia: The Unfortunate Origins of Jimmy Havoc Audio Short Story". Gooney Toons. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  37. ^ "Aurealis #146 — Aurealis". aurealis.com.au. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  38. ^ "Damnation Games". Clan Destine Press. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
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