Occupation Writer and editor Role Writer Name Christine Piper | Genre Literary Fiction Nationality Australian | |
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Ethnicity Australian (Scottish)/Japanese Education Doctor of Creative Arts Books After Darkness, Investing in Children: Policy - La, Sentencing and Punishm, The Responsible Parent: A, Responsible Parent Piper | ||
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Christine Piper is an Australian writer based in New York. Her first novel, After Darkness, won the 2014 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award.
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Biography
Christine Piper was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1979, to an Australian father and a Japanese mother. Her family lived in Seoul for a year due to her father's work (her elder sister was born in Tokyo). She moved to Australia when she was one, and was raised and educated in Sydney. She has lived in Japan several times, teaching English and studying Japanese, most recently in 2010.
Piper attended Cheltenham Girls High School where she excelled at English and Visual Arts. She placed seventh in NSW in her final exams for the 1997 Higher School Certificate in Visual Arts. Piper went on to study a Bachelor of Media majoring in Print Media and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University where she attained a 3.8 GPA in her final year. She then studied Bachelors of Communications (Creative Writing/ Cultural Studies) at the University of Technology, Sydney achieving First Class Honours and later creative writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and again at the University of Technology, Sydney, where she wrote After Darkness for her Doctorate in her Creative Arts degree. While at university, Piper was an editorial assistant for Sydney's Child Magazine, a film columnist for Voiceworks Magazine and a feature's editor for ASilverlimbo Magazine. She also worked as a magazine copy editor and freelance writer. She won the 2014 Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay for "Unearthing the Past".
She currently lives in New York City with her husband. They have one daughter. They moved there in 2013 after Christine won the Diversity Visa (greencard) lottery.
Work
Much of Christine Piper's writing explores themes of identity and belonging. She often writes from an East Asian perspective.