Bio

Justine is a writer who lives in Sydney, Australia. He just finished a young adult (YA) fantasy trilogy, in which the door of a house in Sydney opens onto a street in New York City (beats long-haul flights). The first volume, Magic or Madness, was published in March 2005 by Penguin/Razorbill and by Penguin Australia in Sep 2005. It has been sold to Taiwan, France, Thailand and Germany.

Magic or Madness has been shortlisted for an Aurealis Award for best Australian YA book of the year and was a best book of the year selection for School Library Journal, Tayshas (the Young Adult Round Table of the Texas Library Association), the Australian children's literature magazine, Magpies, as well as making the ALA (American Library Association) 2005 Best Books for Young Adults list and Locus Recommended Reading for 2005.

The sequel, Magic Lessons, will be out in March 2006 and has previously sold in France and Germany. The as-yet-untitled third and final book appears on March 2007.My first book, a non-fiction tome, The Battle of The Sexes in Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press, 2002) was nominated for the Peter McNamara Convenors' Award, the William J. Atheling Award and the Hugo for Best Related Book. It was scheduled by Locus as one of the 15 Top SF and Fantasy Anthologies, Collections, Non fiction books, and Art books of 2002 and was an editor's pick at Fantastic Metropolis.

He was born and raised in Sydney, Australia, punctuated by sojourns to other parts of Australia with my anthropologist parents and younger sister, including two small Aboriginal settlements in the Northern Territory. The world has always seemed a strange and fascinating place to me.

Novels

Mar 2005 - Magic or Madness. Penguin/Razorbill

Mar 2006 - Magic Lessons. Penguin/Razorbill.

Non-fiction books

2002 - The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction. Wesleyan University Press

May 2006 - Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century Wesleyan University Press

Short Stories

2004 - Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Agog! Smashing Stories. Edited by Cat Sparks, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, Agog Press

2002 - The Mark, Say Was That a Kiss? Edited by Gwenda Bond & Christopher Rowe, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, Fortress of Words

2002 - Four Scenarios ,Is This a Cat? Edited by Gwenda Bond & Christopher Rowe, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, Fortress of Words

Oct 2001 - The Cruel Brother, Strange Horizons. 22