Black Juice

Margo Lanagan is a highly acclaimed writer of novels, short stories and poetry.  She lives in Sydney.  Black Juice won the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction, the Ditmar Award for Best Collection and was an honour book in the prestigious Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.  ‘Singing my Sister Down’ won the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction, the Aurealis, Golden Aurealis and Ditmar Awards and was short-listed for the Nebula and the Hugo Awards.  Black Juice was short-listed for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Awards, older Readers, the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for best Young Adult Book and the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award for the Christina Stead Prize.  White Time, Lanagan’s first collection of stories, was short-listed for the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award for the Ethel Turner Prize, the Ditmar Award for Best Collected Work and the Aurealis Convenor’s Award.  ‘The Queen’s Notice’ (from White Time) won the Aurealis Best Young Adult Short Story Award.  Red Spikes, her third collection of stories, was published in 2006.