Claire Zorn

Zorn grew up in the Blue Mountains and attended St Columba's Catholic College.{{Cite web|url=http://www.stcolumbasspringwood.catholic.edu.au/SiteData/191/UserFiles/NewsletterPDF/The_Dove_20_May_2016.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226062907/http://www.stcolumbasspringwood.catholic.edu.au/SiteData/191/UserFiles/NewsletterPDF/The_Dove_20_May_2016.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2017-02-26|title=Year 10 Author Visit|last=Stanisic|first=Annabella Noussis|year=2016|website=The Dove|publisher=St Columba's Catholic College|access-date=2017-08-18}} She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a post graduate diploma in writing{{Cite web|url=http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1263/The%20Sky%20So%20Heavy|title=The Sky So Heavy Teacher's notes|website=University of Queensland Press|access-date=2017-08-18}} from University of Technology Sydney.{{Cite web|url=https://www.arts.gov.au/pm-literary-awards/past-winners-and-shortlists/winners/2015-winners/protected-claire-zorn|title=The Protected by Claire Zorn|last=Arts|first=Department of Communications and the|date=2016-08-05|website=www.arts.gov.au|language=en|access-date=2017-08-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819190714/https://www.arts.gov.au/pm-literary-awards/past-winners-and-shortlists/winners/2015-winners/protected-claire-zorn|archive-date=2017-08-19|url-status=dead}} As a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, her work has been published in literary journals including Wet Ink and the Overland Literary Journal,{{Cite journal|date=2011|title=Author biography|journal=Overland}} and she blogs.{{Cite web|url=https://clairezorn.wordpress.com|title=Claire Zorn|website=Claire Zorn|language=en-US|access-date=2017-08-18}} She is a Christian and has spoken publicly about how her faith influences her writing. She says she tries to view her characters with the same compassion and judgement as Christ views people.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/soul-search/sydney-writers-festival:-whats-god-got-to-do-with-it/11100486|title = Sydney Writers' Festival: What's God Got to do with It?|date = 10 May 2019}}

• The Sky So Heavy (2013). University of Queensland Press. {{ISBN|9780702249761}}Set in the Blue Mountains, Zorn's first novel tells the story of a group of teenagers struggling to survive a nuclear winter.
• Honour Book 2014 Children's Book Council of Australia Award for Older Readers
• Shortlisted 2014 Inky Gold Award
• Shortlisted 2014 Aurealis Awards – Best Young Adult Novel
• Shortlisted 2015 REAL Children's Choice Award – Fiction for Years 7-9{{Cite web|url=http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book.aspx/1263/The%20Sky%20So%20Heavy|title=UQP - The Sky So Heavy|website=www.uqp.uq.edu.au|access-date=2017-08-18}}
• The Protected (2014). University of Queensland Press. {{ISBN|9780702250194}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/store/images/Hi-RES/teachersnotes/1300/3569.pdf|title=The Sky so heavy Teacher's notes|website=University of Queensland Press}}
• Winner, Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2015 – Young Adult Fiction
• Winner of the 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Young Adult
• Winner, 2015 CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers
• Shortlisted, 2015 Inky Gold Award
• Selected in New Zealand Listener's Top 50 Children's Books for 2014
• One Would Think the Deep (2016). University of Queensland Press. {{ISBN|9780702253942}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/store/images/Hi-RES/teachersnotes/1391/3765.pdf|title=One would think the deep. Teacher's notes|website=University of Queensland Press}} A novel about a 17-year-old boy learning to deal with the death of his mother and life in a small coastal town.
• Winner, 2017 CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/18/claire-zorns-grief-and-surfing-story-wins-childrens-book-of-the-year-award|title=Claire Zorn's grief-and-surfing story wins children's book of the year award|last1=Convery|first1=Stephanie|date=2017-08-17|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-08-19|last2=Harmon|first2=Steph|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}
• When We Are Invisible (2021). University of Queensland Press. {{ISBN|9780702263132}}. Sequel to The Sky So Heavy.
• Shortlisted, 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Young Adult Fiction Award{{Cite web|last=|date=2022-01-19|title=2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2022/01/19/208663/2022-adelaide-festival-awards-for-literature-shortlist-announced/|access-date=2022-01-26|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}

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