Alice Nelson

Alice Nelson is a Perth-born writer who has spent several years living and studying abroad. She studied creative writing at the University of Western Australia and in the renowned Master’s program at the City University of New York in Manhattan. Her award-winning short fiction has appeared in journals such as Southerly and Westerly and she has been awarded residential fellowships at the Dorset Writers’ Colony in Vermont and at Varuna, the Writer’s House in the Blue Mountains. Alice’s first novel, The Last Sky was short listed for the prestigious The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 2004 and won the 2006 T A G Hungerford Award.

Awards

Winner, Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year, 2009
Short listed, Barbara Jefferis Award for Literature, 2009
Winner, T A G Hungerford Award, 2006
Short listed, The Australian / Vogel Award, 2004

Books available from Fremantle Press

• The Last Sky – Book Club Edition 2010