Karen Hitchcock (author)

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Karen Hitchcock
Born1972
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
OccupationAuthor

Karen Hitchcock is an Australian author and medical doctor who published her first book of short stories in 2009. She has published in both medical [1] and literary journals, including a publication in the "Best Australian Short Stories" and "Best Australian Essays" anthologies. [2]

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Her first book Little White Slips (Picador, 2009) won the 2010 Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, was shortlisted in the 2010 NSW Premiers Literary Award and the Kibble/Dobie award for women writers.

Karen writes a regular column about medicine for The Monthly , and currently works as a physician in a large city hospital in Melbourne.

Bibliography

Nonfiction

Short fiction

Collections

  • Hitchcock, Karen (2009). Little white slips. Sydney: Picador Australia.

Selected essays and reporting

References

  1. Nair, Balakrishnan R.; Mears, Stephen R.; Hitchcock, Karen I.; Attia, John R. (9 December 2002). "Evidence-based physicians' dressing: a crossover trial" . The Medical Journal of Australia. 177 (11): 681–682. doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb05017.x. PMID   12464001. S2CID   36833163.
  2. The Best Australian Stories 2009 by Delia Falconer. 4 August 2009. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  3. Original printed article is untitled.