Kaaron Warren

Kaaron Warren
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Australian
Genres	Speculative fiction Horror fiction

Kaaron Warren is an Australian author of horror, science fiction, and fantasy short stories and novels.

She is the author of the short story collections The Grinding House, which won the 2006 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards and Dead Sea Fruit.^[1] Her short stories have won both the Ditmar and Aurealis Award.^[2][3]

Her debut novel, Slights, was published by HarperCollins' new Angry Robot offshoot in July 2009, followed by "Walking the Tree" in February 2010 and "Mistification", forthcoming in June 2011.

Bibliography

Novels

• Slights (Angry Robot, July 2009 [UK, Australia]/September 2010 [US/rest of world]) ISBN 978-0-85766-007-7 (US)
• Walking the Tree (Angry Robot, February 2010 [UK/Australia]/January 2011 [US/rest of world]) ISBN 978-0-85766-043-5 (US)
• Mistification (Angry Robot, June 2011 [UK, Australia]/July 2011 [US/rest of world) ISBN 978-0-85766-108-1 (UK), ISBN 978-0-85766-109-8 (US)

Collections

• The Grinding House (CSFG Publishing, 2005) ISBN 0-9581390-3-2
• Dead Sea Fruit (Ticonderoga Publications, 2010)

Short fiction

• "White Bed" (1993) in Shrieks
• "The Blue Stream" (1994) in Aurealis #14 (ed. Stephen Higgins, Dirk Strasser)
• "The Salamander" (1994) in Don't Cross the Water and Other Warnings
• "Summer Coming" (1994) in Narcissus Magazine #10
• "The Wrong Seat" (1994) in Calling Up the Devil and Associated Misdemeanours
• "The First Interview" (1995) in UQ Social Alternatives Magazine, Volume 14, No. 3
• "Loud Music" (1995) in Spies, Lies and Watching Eyes
• "The Paper Room" (1995) in Going Down Swinging #15
• "Skin Holes" (1995) in Strange Fruit (ed. Paul Collins)
• "The Hanging People" (1996) in Bloodsongs #7 (ed. Steve Proposch)
• "A Positive" (1998) in Bloodsongs #10
• "The Glass Woman" (1998) in Aurealis #22 (ed. Stephen Higgins, Dirk Strasser)
• "My Smile" (1999) in Nasty Snips (ed. Christopher C. Teague)
• "The School Fair" (1999) in Ghosts and Ghoulies (ed. Paul Collins, Meredith Costain)
• "The Left Behind" (2000) in Orb Speculative Fiction #1 (ed. Sarah Endacott)
• "The Speaker of Heaven" (2001) in Orb Speculative Fiction #2 (ed. Sarah Endacott)
• "Survival of the Last (2001) in Aurealis #27/28 (ed. Dirk Strasser, Stephen Higgins)
• "State of Oblivion" (2003) in Elsewhere (ed. Michael Barry)
• "Bone Dog" (2003) in Agog! Terrific Tales (ed. Cat Sparks)
• "Guarding the Mound" (2004) in Encounters (ed. Maxine McArthur, Donna Maree Hanson)
• "The Capture Diamonds" (2005), in Shadow Box
• "Doll Money" (2005) in Fables and Reflections, #7
• "Fresh Young Widow" (2005) in The Grinding House
• "The Grinding House" (2005) in The Grinding House
• "The Smell of Mice" (2005) in The Grinding House
• "Smoke" (2005) in The Grinding House
• "Smoko" (2005) in The Grinding House
• "The Sameness of Birthdays" (2005) in The Grinding House
• "Tiger Kill" (2005) in The Grinding House
• "Working for the God of the Love of Money " (2005) in The Grinding House
• "Al's Iso Bar" (2005) in The Grinding House
• "The Gibbet Bell" (2006) in Borderlands #7
• "The Softening" (2006) in Shadowed Realms #9
• "Woman Train" (2006) in The Outcast (ed. Nicole R. Murphy)
• "Dead Sea Fruit" (2006) in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007 (ed. Kelly Link, Gavin Grant, Ellen Datlow)
• "Cooling the Crows" (2007) in In Bad Dreams, Volume One: Where Real Life Awaits (ed. Mark S. Deniz, Sharyn Lilley)
• "Coalescence" (2007) in Aurealis #37 (ed. Stephen Higgins, Stuart Mayne)
• "His Lipstick Minx" (2007) in The Workers' Paradise
• "Polish" (2007) in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #28 (ed. Zara Baxter)
• "Ghost Jail" (2008) in The Apex Book of World SF (ed. Lavie Tidhar)
• "Down to the Silver Spirits" (2008) in Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy (ed. Ekaterina Sedia)
• "The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall" (2009) in The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two (ed. Ellen Datlow)
• "The Tell" (2009) in Poe (ed. Ellen Datlow)
• "That Girl" (2010) in Haunted Legends (ed. Ellen Datlow, Nick Mamatas)

Awards

Wins

• 2006 ACT Writing and Publishing Award, fiction: The Grinding House
• 2006 Ditmar Award, Novella/novelette: "The Grinding House"
• 2006 Ditmar Award, Short story: "Fresh Young Widow"
• 1999 Aurealis Award, Horror short story: "A Positive"

Nominations

• 2008 Ditmar Award, Short story: "His Lipstick Minx"
• 2006 Ditmar Award, Collected work: The Grinding House
• 2006 Australian Shadows Award: The Grinding House
• 2007 Aurealis Award, Horror short story: "Woman Train"
• 2007 Aurealis Award, Horror short story: "Dead Sea Fruit"
• 2004 Aurealis Award, Science Fiction short story: "State of Oblivion"
• 2002 Aurealis Award, Fantasy short story: "The Speaker of Heaven"
• 2001 Aurealis Award, Fantasy short story: "The Left Behind"
• 1999 Aurealis Award, Horror short story: "The Glass Woman"
• 1997 Aurealis Award, Horror short story: "The Hanging People"
• 1996 Aurealis Award, Horror short story: "Skin Holes"
• 1996 Aurealis Award, Fantasy short story: "The Blue Stream"

References

1. ^ "2006 ACT Writing & Publishing Awards". ACT Writing and Publishing Awards. Archived from the original on 2007-08-29. http://web.archive.org/web/20070829025141/http://www.actwriters.org.au/competitions/winners+2005+publishing+awards.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-23. 
2. ^ Aurealis Awards winners archive Retrieved 17-2-2008.
3. ^ Inkspillers Ditmar Awards archive. Retrieved 17-2-2008.

External links

• Kaaron Warren Interview by Ben Peek
• Kaaron Warren Interview for Horrorscope
• Kaaron Warren at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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