Penni Russon

Penni Russon
Born (1974-12-27) 27 December 1974 (age 50)
Tasmania, Australia
GenreChildren's literature, young adult fiction
Website
www.pennirusson.com

Penni Russon (born 27 December 1974) is an Australian writer of children's literature and young adult fiction.

Biography

Russon was born in 1974 in Tasmania, Australia.[1] Russon studied children's literature at Monash University and professional writing and editing at RMIT University. She is a freelance editor and originally wrote poems.[2] In 2004, her first novel was published by Random House, entitled Undine.[3] Undine was a finalist in the 2004 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel but lost to Scott Westerfeld's The Secret Hour.[4] In 2005, she released the sequel to Undine, entitled Breathe, which was published by Random House, and in 2007 she concluded the Undine trilogy with Drift.[5][6] Breathe received a note of high commendation at the 2005 Aurealis Awards.[7] Russon has written three novels in the Girlfriend Fiction series, one in collaboration with Kate Constable, and in 2007 she released Josie and the Michael Street Kids, which was a finalist for the 2009 Children's Peace Literature Award.[8][9][10] In 2020, she completed a PhD in comics as therapy in youth mental health, titled Seeing feeling, feeling seen: a reparative poetics of youth mental health in graphic medicine.[11]

Bibliography

Undine trilogy

  • Undine (2004)
  • Breathe (2005)
  • Drift (2007)

Other novels

  • Josie and the Michael Street Kids (2007, part of the Aussie Chomps series)
  • Indigo Girls (2008, book 2 in the Girlfriend Fiction series)
  • Little Bird (2009, book 13 in the Girlfriend Fiction series)
  • Dear Swoosie (2010, with Kate Constable, book 17 in the Girlfriend Fiction series)
  • Only Ever Always (2011)
  • The Endsister (2018)

Awards and nominations

Aurealis Awards

Children's Peace Literature Award

  • 2009: Nomination: Josie and the Michael Street Kids

References

  1. ^ "About Penni Russon". pennirusson.com. Archived from the original on 28 October 2010. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  2. ^ "Penni Russon". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  3. ^ "Undine". Random House. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  4. ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2005 Aurealis Awards". Locus Online. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  5. ^ "Breathe". Random House. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  6. ^ "Drift". Random House. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  7. ^ "Aurealis Awards, previous years' results" (PDF). Aurealis Awards. 1995–2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2010.
  8. ^ "Little Bird (Girlfriend Fiction 13)". Allen & Unwin. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  9. ^ "Indigo Girls (Girlfriend Fiction 2)". Allen & Unwin. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  10. ^ "Josie and the Michael Street Kids: Aussie Chomps by Penni Russon". Penguin Books. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  11. ^ ""Seeing feeling, feeling seen: a reparative poetics of youth mental health in graphic medicine"". The University of Melbourne Library. Retrieved 24 April 2024.