Alison Goodman


Alison Goodman is an Australian writer of books for young adults.
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Life and career

Goodman's debut novel Singing the Dogstar Blues won an Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel. In July 2007, her adult crime thriller Killing the Rabbit was published in the United States and was shortlisted for the Davitt Award.
The first book in her crossover fantasy duology The Two Pearls of Wisdom was published in Australia and the U.K in mid-2008. It was also released in the United States in late December 2008 under the title Eon: Dragoneye Reborn. It has subsequently been translated into 12 languages, and won the 2009 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel, is a 2008 James Tiptree, Jr. Award Honor Book and a Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book.
Goodman has also written short stories for several anthologies. She has a master's degree in creative writing from RMIT University, and has taught in creative writing at the University of Ballarat.

Novels

Short fiction

  • "One Last Zoom at the Buzz Bar" in The Patternmaker: Nine Science Fiction Stories
  • "Dead Spyders" in Eidolon, Issue 24, Autumn 1997
  • "The Real Thing" in ''Firebirds Rising: An Original Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy''

Awards