Kimberley Starr
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Kimberley Starr (born 1970 in Morgantown, West Virginia) is a novelist who moved to Australia as a young child. She began her education at the Armidale Demonstration School, moving on to Garran Primary School, and Padua Catholic High School, ACT (now MacKillop Catholic College), before completing her secondary education at Loreto Normanhurst. She holds degrees in literature from the University of Sydney and Macquarie University. Her first novel, The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies, released in 2004, won the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards for best emerging author and was chosen for the One Book One Brisbane reading campaign in 2005.
Kimberley has had short fiction and book reviews published in a variety of Australian magazines. She currently lives in London.
[edit] Bibliography
- Starr, Kimberley (2004) The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies UQP ISBN 0-7022-3474-5
[edit] Awards and Nominations
- 2003 - Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best Emerging Queensland Author - for The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies
- 2005 - Dobbie Award - best first novel by a female author. Shortlisted.
- 2005 - One Book One Brisbane selection.
