Karen Foxlee

Karen Foxlee is an Australian author who lives and writes in Queensland. Her first novel The Anatomy of Wings (UQP/Knopf/Atlantic) was much acclaimed and published internationally. It won numerous awards including the Queensland Premiers Literary Award for Emerging Queensland author in 2006, the Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book 2008 (South Asia/Pacific), the Dobbie Award 2008, and a Parent’s Choice Gold Award in the U.S. It was also short-listed for the inaugural Barbara Jefferis Award. Her second novel is The Midnight Dress.