Bio
Grace Dugan was born in Melbourne and grew up in Warwick on the Darling Downs, Queensland. She began writing The Silver Road in the final months of high school, and continued working on it while studying a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland. An early version of the novel won a Varuna Manuscript Award in 2003, which gave her the opportunity to work with the input of a professional editor whilst relaxing in the cushy surroundings of Varuna, the Writer’s House.
Grace also writes short fiction, and was a member of the Vision Writers group in Brisbane for seven years. Her stories have been published in Interzone and Strange Horizons. With a group of sf writers in Brisbane, she co-founded the Clarion South Writers Workshop, a six-week intensive program for writers of short sf, and in 2004 was able to attend the original Clarion workshop at Michigan State University.
After some serious illness and major surgery in 2006, Grace developed an interest in medicine and is currently studying to be a doctor at the University of Queensland. She lives in a shabby sharehouse in Brisbane’s inner west and her spare time enjoys gardening, cooking and reading.
Her next novel is The Motherland Garden.
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