Karen Foxlee | |
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![]() Foxlee at Perth Festival Writers Week in 2019 | |
Born | |
Occupation | Novelist |
Notable work | Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy |
Karen Foxlee is an Australian novelist.
After training and working as a nurse for most of her adult life, she graduated from the University of the Sunshine Coast with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2005, in creative writing. [1] Her first novel The Anatomy of Wings was originally published in 2008, by the University of Queensland Press, and has since been published in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. [2]
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