Claire Zorn

Zorn grew up in the Blue Mountains and attended St Columba’s Catholic College. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a post graduate diploma in writing from University of Technology Sydney. 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, and she blogs.

• The Sky So Heavy (2013). University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702249761Set 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
• The Protected (2014). University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702250194
  • 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 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