Penni Russon

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Penni Russon
Born (1974-12-27) 27 December 1974 (age 47)
Tasmania, Australia
Genre Children's literature, young adult fiction
Website
www.pennirusson.com

Penni Russon (born 27 December 1974) is an Australian writer of children's literature and young adult fiction.

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Biography

Russon was born in 1974 in Tasmania, Australia. [1] Russon studied children's literature at Monash University and professional writing and editing at RMIT University. She is a freelance editor and originally wrote poems. [2] In 2004, her first novel was published by Random House, entitled Undine. [3] Undine was a finalist in the 2004 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel but lost to Scott Westerfeld's The Secret Hour . [4] In 2005, she released the sequel to Undine, entitled Breathe, which was published by Random House, and in 2007 she concluded the Undine trilogy with Drift. [5] [6] Breathe received a note of high commendation at the 2005 Aurealis Awards. [7] Russon has written three novels in the Girlfriend Fiction series, one in collaboration with Kate Constable, and in 2007 she released Josie and the Michael Street Kids, which was a finalist for the 2009 Children's Peace Literature Award. [8] [9] [10] In 2020, she completed a PhD in comics as therapy in youth mental health, titled Seeing feeling, feeling seen: a reparative poetics of youth mental health in graphic medicine. [11]

Bibliography

Undine trilogy

Other novels

Awards and nominations

Aurealis Awards

Children's Peace Literature Award

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  9. "Indigo Girls (Girlfriend Fiction 2)". Allen & Unwin . Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  10. "Josie and the Michael Street Kids: Aussie Chomps by Penni Russon". Penguin Books . Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  11. Russon, Penelope Ann (2020). "Seeing feeling, feeling seen: a reparative poetics of youth mental health in graphic medicine". hdl:11343/251823.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)