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Brigid Lowry
Brigid Lowry (born 25 March 1953) is a New Zealand author. BackgroundLowry was born in 1953 in Auckland, New Zealand.[1] She has a diploma of teaching from Auckland Teachers College (1973), BA in English from Curtin University, a postgraduate diploma of English literature, and an MA in creative writing from the University of Western Australia.[2] Lowry has lived for some time in Australia, returning to live in Nelson, New Zealand from 2000 to 2010. She currently resides in Perth, Western Australia.[3][1] CareerLowry is primarily a children's and young adult author, she has also published poetry and short stories. She became a professional writer in 1985 and also teaches creative writing.[2] Lowry has been published in Western Word, Far & Wide, Southern Review, Imago, Western Word Magazine, Mind Moon Circle, Fremantle Arts Review, Speculum Magazine, Naked Eye, Westerly Magazine and Australian Book Review.[2] AwardsGuitar Highway Rose won the 1999 Avis Page Award in the West Australian Young Readers' Book Awards[4] and was shortlisted for the 1998 Children's Book Council of Australia Readers Book of the Year (Older Readers).[5] It was also shortlisted in the 2006 LIANZA Esther Glen Junior Fiction Award.[6] In 2006 With Lots of Love from Georgia won the Young Adult Fiction category at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults,[7] and was included in the 2006 Storylines Notable Young Adult Fiction Book list.[8] Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful won the 2008 Victorian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Fiction[9] and was a finalist in the Young Adult Fiction category at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.[10] Juicy Writing: Inspiration and Techniques for Young Writers was included in the 2009 Storylines Notable Non-Fiction Book list[11] and was shortlisted in the non-fiction category in the 2009 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards.[12] Lowry received the 2008 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship with Paula Morris.[13] In 2004 she was the University of Otago College of Education Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence.[14] In February 2017, Lowry was the visiting writer at the Michael King Writers Centre.[15] Published works
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