Karen Healey by Donna Robertson. From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries, retrieved from flickr.com, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 (accessed: February 8, 2022).
Karen Healey
, b. 1981
Karen Healey is a New Zealand young adult fiction author of primarily science fiction. She studied at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, first completing a double major in English and Classics, followed by an honours year, and a Master of Arts. She taught English in Japan for two years through the international Japanese Exchange and Teaching program, before applying to do a PhD about superhero comics at the University of Melbourne. As she was most interested in teaching, she left the program and returned to New Zealand to retrain as a high school English, Classics and Media Studies teacher. Her novels have been nominated for and won numerous awards; most notably, Guardian of the Dead (accessed: October 7, 2021), which won the 2010 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel. The Aurealis Award is Australia’s premier speculative fiction award, and is awarded annually.
Sources:
The Author's website (accessed: October 7, 2021).
Profile on Goodreads (accessed: October 7, 2021).
Twitter (accessed: October 7, 2021).
Bio prepared by Emily Booth, University of Technology, Sydney, Emily.Booth@uts.edu.au
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