Zorn grew up in the Blue Mountains[1] and attended St Columba's Catholic College.[2] She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a post graduate diploma in writing[3] from University of Technology Sydney.[4] As a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, her work has been published in literary journals including Wet Ink and the Overland Literary Journal,[5] and she blogs.[6] She is a Christian and has spoken publicly about how her faith influences her writing. She says she tries to view her characters with the same compassion and judgement as Christ views people.[7]
Published works and awards
The Sky So Heavy (2013). University of Queensland Press. ISBN9780702249761Set in the Blue Mountains, Zorn's first novel tells the story of a group of teenagers struggling to survive a nuclear winter.
Honour Book 2014 Children's Book Council of Australia Award for Older Readers
Shortlisted 2014 Inky Gold Award
Shortlisted 2014 Aurealis Awards – Best Young Adult Novel
Shortlisted 2015 REAL Children's Choice Award – Fiction for Years 7-9[8]
Winner, Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2015 – Young Adult Fiction
Winner of the 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Young Adult
Winner, 2015 CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers
Shortlisted, 2015 Inky Gold Award
Selected in New Zealand Listener's Top 50 Children's Books for 2014
One Would Think the Deep (2016). University of Queensland Press. ISBN9780702253942[10] A novel about a 17-year-old boy learning to deal with the death of his mother and life in a small coastal town.
^Stanisic, Annabella Noussis (2016). "Year 10 Author Visit"(PDF). The Dove. St Columba's Catholic College. Archived from the original(PDF) on 26 February 2017. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
^Arts, Department of Communications and the (5 August 2016). "The Protected by Claire Zorn". www.arts.gov.au. Archived from the original on 19 August 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2017.