Kaaron Warren

Role in IFWG: Author

Bio:
Shirley Jackson award-winner Kaaron Warren published her first short story in 1993 and has had fiction in print every year since.

She has published five multi-award winning novels with IFWG: Slights, Walking the Tree, Mistification, The Grief Hole, and Tide of Stone, as well as a crime novel from Viper Books, The Underhistory. The Grief Hole is the only Australian novel to have won all three Australian genre awards.

Her seven short story collections include The Gate Theory, from IFWG and her most recent, a collaboration with Cat Sparks, Calvaria Fell, from Meerkat Press. Her novella from that collection, “The Emporium”, is shortlisted for a Ditmar award and a Shadows Award.

She was given the Peter McNamara Lifetime Achievement Award and was Guest of Honour at World Fantasy 2018, Stokercon 2019 and Geysercon 2019. She has also been Guest of Honour at Conflux in Canberra and Genrecon in Brisbane.

She has lived in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Fiji, drawing inspiration from every place.

Kaaron was a Fellow at the Museum for Australian Democracy, where she researched prime ministers, artists and serial killers. In 2018 she was Established Artist in Residence at Katharine Susannah Prichard House in Western Australia. She’s taught workshops in haunted asylums, old morgues and second hand clothing shops and she’s mentored several writers through a number of programs.

Her writing podcast Let the Cat In showcases ideas, objects, and inspirations.

Author Website: https://kaaronwarren.wordpress.com

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