Hoa Pham


Hoa Pham is an Australian author of Vietnamese descent.

Biography

Pham was born in Hobart after her parents arrived there during the 1970s to study. She lives in Melbourne.
Pham's most recent novel is 'Empathy', published in 2022. Her novel The Other Shore was a co-winner of Seizure's Viva la Novella 2 competition. Her first novel, Vixen led her to win the 2001 Sydney Morning Herald's Young Writer of the Year award. Vixen also was a finalist for the 2000 Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel but lost to Juliet Marillier's Son of the Shadows. She was the founding editor of Peril, an online journal for Asian Australians.

Novels

  • Quicksilver
  • Vixen
  • The Other Shore
  • Wave
  • Lady of the Realm
  • Empathy

Children's books

No-one Like Me
  • ''49 Ghosts''

Short stories

  • "Reality" in Aurealis #13,
  • "On the Continent" in Aurealis #20/21 Yolk Heroic Mother Immolation
  • ''Mara''

Plays

Silence : about the secrets and spirits that haunt us from within. A family reunited by a death anniversary have to face the possessiveness of history and put the past to rest. Silence is on the Victorian Certificate of Education list for . Silence was presented at in 2008, 2009 and 2010.I could be you : a short ten-minute play in the Melburnalia 2 series in 2009, and will be expanded into a full-length play for the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2010.