Lisa L. Hannett is from Ottawa, Canada. She majored in painting and photography and earned an Honours degree in Fine Arts. She also earned an Honours degree in English in South Australia and a PhD in medieval Icelandic literature. She is also a graduate of Clarion South. Currently she is a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Flinders University. As a writer of speculative fiction stories, her short stories have appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, ChiZine, Shimmer and Ann & Jeff VanderMeer's Steampunk Reloaded, among other places. Her first collection of short stories, Bluegrass Symphony, won the 2011 Aurealis Award for Best Collection. She was the winner for, Best Horror Short Story, Aurealis Awards 2011. In 2015 her title The Female Factory won an Aurealis Award in the Collection category. Her first novel, Lament for the Afterlife, won the 2016 Ditmar Award for Best Novel.
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