Anna Tambour is an author of satire, fable and other strange and hard-to-categorize fiction and poetry.
In 2009, her story "The Age of Fish, Post-flowers" was in the anthology Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. (Senses Five Press) that won the Anthology World Fantasy Award. Also in 2009, her story "Gladiolus Exposed" was in the anthology The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Del Rey), which was one of four anthologies shortlisted for the same award.
Tambour's collection Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales & was published in 2003, and Spotted Lily, a novel, in 2005. Ebook editions of both of these were published by infinity plus[1] in 2011.
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Locus listed both Tambour's collection and novel in their Recommended Reading lists. Spotted Lily was shortlisted in 2006 for the William L. Crawford Fantasy Award, and was recommended for a British Fantasy Society Award (Best Novel). In 2008, The Jeweller of Second-hand Roe[2] won the Aurealis Award for best horror short story. See Here, See There[3], was a finalist in the 2006 Aurealis Awards in the Fantasy Short Story category. In 2004, Tambour was shortlisted for a Ditmar Award in the category Best New Talent.
Anna Tambour lives in the Australian bush, but has lived all over the world and is, in Tambour's words, "of no fixed nationality"[4]. In addition to writing fiction, Tambour also writes about and takes photographs of what she calls "magnificants — magnificent insignificants".
She has a strong interest in medlars, which appear in many Tambour stories, as do other odd and forgotten foods.