2013 Author Guest: Justine Larbalestier

Alpha is pleased to announce that author Justine Larbalestier will teach for two days at the 2013 workshop.

Justine Larbalestier is the author of novels such as Team Human (co-authored with Sarah Rees Brennan), Liar, How to Ditch Your Fairy, and Magic or Madness, the winner of the 2006 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her nonfiction book The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, a critical appraisal of gender relations in science fiction from 1926-1973, was nominated for the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Related Work. Also, she edited Daughters of Earth, a scholarly collection of 20th-century feminist science fiction, which was shortlisted for a British Science Fiction Award and won both the Susan Koppelman Award and the William Atheling Jr. Award. She lives in Sydney and sometimes New York City.