Karen Hitchcock (author)

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 and literary journals, including a publication in the "Best Australian Short Stories" and "Best Australian Essays" anthologies.

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• Qe57 karen hitchcock on caring for the elderly
• Karen hitchcock seeing the old the weak and the afflicted wednesday lectures 2016
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Her first book Little White Slips (Picador, 2009) was well received in the Australian media and 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.