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Lucy Sussex was born on 1957 in Christchurch, New Zealand, is a New Zealand writer. Discover Lucy Sussex's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?
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Lucy Sussex Net Worth
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Lucy Sussex (born 1957 in New Zealand) is an author working in fantasy and science fiction, children's and teenage writing, non-fiction and true crime.
She is also an editor, reviewer, academic and teacher, and currently resides in Melbourne, Australia.
She is often associated with feminist science fiction, Australiana, the history of women's writing, and detective fiction.
Lucy Sussex was born in 1957 in Christchurch, New Zealand.
She has lived in New Zealand, France, the United Kingdom and Australia, where she settled in 1971, and has spent the majority of her time since.
She has a degree in English and an MA in Librarianship from Monash University, and also a Ph.D from the University of Wales.
She has been writing since the age of eleven.
In 1979 she attended a Sydney-based Science Fiction Writers' Workshop, conducted by Terry Carr and George Turner and soon after published her first short stories locally and overseas.
Lucy Sussex's fiction has spanned a range of genres, including Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Crime and Detective fiction and been aimed at the children's, young adult and adult fiction markets.
Her first story to gain notice might be 1985's The Lipton Village Society, which involved the creation of an alternate world.
Sussex is strongly feminist.
Victoriana styles and motifs recur in her work, as do dolls.
The Scarlet Rider is a fictionalization of her search for Mary Fortune.
Sussex works as a freelance editor and researcher and has published literary criticism and journalism.
She is a Fellow at the Federation University Ballarat, and La Trobe University.
In 1989, she won her first Ditmar Award for short story "My Lady Tongue" about a lesbian feminist community.
She has published six novels - the first appearing in 1995 - and over 30 short stories, which have been collected across three anthologies.
She was a judge for the international James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 1995, and has subsequently judged the Age, Victorian Premier's and ASAL gold medal awards.
The volume was short listed for the prestigious World Fantasy Award in 1996.
She has also described herself as a 'literary archaeologist' having rediscovered and republished the work of nineteenth-century Australian crime writers Mary Fortune and Ellen Davitt.
Fortune's full identity was uncovered through Sussex's scholarship, having been previously only known by pseudonyms for many decades.
Her Ph.D thesis also focused on early women crime writers, the mothers of the genre.
Sussex has participated in numerous conventions and conferences, either as guest or panelist.
She won three further Ditmars, for her novel The Scarlet Rider (1997), novella "La Sentinelle" (2004), and short story "Absolute Uncertainty".
"Merlusine" won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story in 1998, and "La Sentinelle" won an Aurealis Award in 2003.
She has for many years maintained an active interest in encouraging emerging writers in the speculative fiction field, conducting a number of workshops, including at Aussiecon III, the 1999 World SF Convention in Melbourne.
She was a teacher at Clarion West, in Seattle in 2001 and at Clarion South in 2004.
In 2003 Sussex was awarded the Chandler Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Australian Science Fiction", which recognised the scope of her achievements in the Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy fields as practitioner, academic and teacher.
She has regularly conducted workshops in her home city of Melbourne, of varying lengths and themes, most recently facilitating a Science Fiction Novel writing challenge in 2008-09.
In 2008 her short story "Mist and Murder" won a Sir Julius Vogel Award.
She writes reviews - until 2013 for The Age newspaper on a weekly basis, which involved reading 5-6 books per week.
She has edited several anthologies, including She's Fantastical, the first collection of Australian women's speculative fiction, magical realism and fantasy to be published in that country.
Fergus Hume and the Mystery of a Hansom Cab'' won the History Publication Award in the Victorian Community History Awards in 2015.
It was shortlisted for the 2017 Best Non Fiction prize in the Ngaio Marsh Awards.
