Grace Dugan

Grace Dugan was born in Melbourne in 1981 and grew up in Warwick on the Darling Downs, south-east Queensland. She graduated from the University of Queensland in 2003 with a BA in political science and in 2011 with Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery. Grace's novel The Silver Road received a Varuna Award for Manuscript Development and was published by Penguin Australia in 2006. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies including Interzone and Strange Horizons. She attended the Clarion Workshop in Michigan, USA, in 2004 and was a co-founder of the Clarion South Workshop in Brisbane. Grace has taught English language at Griffith University and creative writing at Queensland University of Technology and the Queensland Writers Centre. She now works as a resident medical officer in Nelson, New Zealand. Her other interests include gardening, cooking and, of course, reading.