Lisa L Hannett is a writer of speculative fiction, largely of the creepy or unsettling variety. She is also a graduate of Clarion South.
Her short stories have appeared in venues including Clarkesworld Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, ChiZine, Midnight Echo, Electric Velocipede, Tesseracts 14, Shimmer and Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s Steampunk Reloaded, among other places. Her story ‘On the Lot and In the Air’ was recommended on Locus’s Recommended Reading List for 2009; ‘Commonplace Sacrifices’ was on Tangent Online’s Recommended Reading List for 2010; ‘Soil From My Fingers’ will appear in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2010, and ‘The February Dragon’, co-written with Angela Slatter, won the ‘Best Fantasy Short Story’ Aurealis Award for 2010.
Her first collection of short stories, Bluegrass Symphony, was recently published by Ticonderoga Publications in August 2011. It deals with cowboys and fallow fields, shapeshifters and rednecks, superstitions and realities in harsh prairie country — and a whole bunch of other things thrown in the mix.
Her second collection, Midnight and Moonshine (co-authored with Angela Slatter) will be published in November 2012.
Gay Lynch teaches creative writing and English at Flinders University. Her research areas include Irish-Australian history, contemporary literature, and creative writing pedagogy. She has published educational children's texts, short stories, and a novel and, most recently, an essay on Irish-Australian convict playwright, Edward Geoghegan (1812-1869).
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