Christine Piper

Christine Piper

Photo by Timothy Lee
Born March 1979
Seoul, South Korea
Occupation Writer and editor
Nationality Australian
Ethnicity Australian (Scottish)/Japanese
Education Doctor of Creative Arts
Genre Literary Fiction
Website
www.christinepiper.com

Christine Piper is an Australian writer based in New York. Her first novel, After Darkness, won the 2014 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award.

Biography

Christine Piper was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1979, to an Australian father and a Japanese mother.[1] Her family lived in Seoul for a year due to her father's work (her elder sister was born in Tokyo). She moved to Australia when she was one, and was raised and educated in Sydney. She has lived in Japan several times, teaching English and studying Japanese, most recently in 2010.

She attended Cheltenham Girls High School and then went on to study creative writing at Macquarie University, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Technology, Sydney, where she wrote After Darkness for her Doctor of Creative Arts degree.[2] She also works as a magazine copy editor and freelance writer. She won the 2014 Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay for "Unearthing the Past".[3]

She currently lives in New York City with her husband.[4] They moved there in 2013 after Christine won the Diversity Visa (greencard) lottery.

Work

Much of Christine Piper's writing explores themes of identity and belonging. She often writes from an East Asian perspective.

Bibliography

Fiction

Non-fiction

"Unearthing the Past" (Australian Book Review, April 2014)

Editing

UTS Writers' Anthology: I can see my house from here (Brandl & Schlesinger)

Awards and nominations

2014 The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award

2014 Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay

2013 Alice Hayes Writing Fellow at Ragdale

2011 Margaret River Short Story Competition, Second Prize

2010 Japan Foundation Japanese Language Program for Specialists in Cultural and Academic Fields

References

  1. ↑ http://www.christinepiper.com/bio/
  2. ↑ http://www.christinepiper.com/bio/
  3. ↑ https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/114-april-2014-no-360/1898-unearthing-the-past
  4. ↑ http://www.christinepiper.com/bio/

External links

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