Susan Parisi Explained

Susan Parisi
Birth Date:1958
Birth Place:Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality:Canadian-Australian
Genre:Horror fiction
Awards:Aurealis Award

Susan Parisi (born 1958)[1] is a Canadian-Australian author of horror fiction. Her debut novel Blood of Dreams won the 2007 Aurealis Award for best horror novel.[2]

Biography

Susan Parisi was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1958. As a teenager, she moved to Australia with her family because her father was on the run from the law.[3]

Parisi completed postgraduate studies in psychology and has been employed in occupational psychology and university administration.

Currently residing in Sydney, Parisi is married to an Italian-Australian man. She has a passion for Italian culture and frequently travels to Italy.[4]

Parisi is a dual Canadian-Australian citizen.

Works

In 2007, Parisi's debut novel Blood of Dreams was released by Viking.[5] A murder-mystery set in 18th-century Venice during Carnevale, it involves a killer who stalks his victims' dreams and a woman who must confront her past in order to stop him.[6]

Blood of Dreams was awarded the 2007 Aurealis Award for best horror novel and was a short-list nominee for the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel.[7]

Parisi is working her second novel Mosaic, a conspiracy-thriller set in Rome and Palermo.

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: A Celebration of Women Writers: AUSTRALIA. digital.library.upenn.edu. 2016-11-19.
  2. Web site: "Aurealis Awards 2008" . SFADB. 9 May 2024.
  3. Web site: Susan Parisi. Worlds Without End. 2016-11-19.
  4. Web site: Susan Parisi. Productions. Alessandro Sorbello. 2008-04-07. The Official Italian Week Celebrations. 2016-11-19.
  5. Web site: Blood of Dreams. Austlit. www.austlit.edu.au. 2016-11-19.
  6. Web site: Blood of Dreams Penguin Books Australia. penguin.com.au. 2016-11-19.
  7. Web site: aurealis awards, previous years' results . . 2009-12-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101224172144/http://www.aurealisawards.com/downloads/history1995_2008.pdf.pdf . 24 December 2010 . dmy-all .