Tracy Sorensen Explained

Tracy Sorensen
Language:English
Nationality:Australian
Notableworks:The Lucky Galah

Tracy Sorensen is an Australian novelist, filmmaker and academic.[1]

Career

Sorensen is a tutor and lecturer at Charles Sturt University and has published five academic papers.[2]

In February 2018 her debut novel The Lucky Galah was published through Pan MacMillan.[3] It has been shortlisted and longlisted in multiple awards (see below). It is narrated by a flightless pet galah observing characters from a family's back verandah in a small Western Australian town.[4]

In July 2023 Sorensen's second book The Vitals was published through Pan MacMillan. It deals with her experience of cancer in 2014 from the point of view of her affected abdominal organs.[5]

In August 2019, Sorensen was awarded the Judy Harris Writer in Residence Fellowship at the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre.[6]

Personal life

Sorensen grew up in Carnarvon on the north coast of Western Australia. She currently lives in Bathurst where she is undertaking a PhD.[7] [8] She is researching the role of handicrafts such as crochet in climate change communication in the School of Communication and Creative Industries at Charles Sturt University.[9]

Bibliography

Novels

Awards

The Lucky Galah

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorensen. Booktopia. 10 March 2019.
  2. Web site: Tracy Sorensen . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210302234738/http://arts-ed.csu.edu.au/higher-degrees/current-profile/tracy-sorensen . 2021-03-02 . 2019-03-10 . Charles Sturt University.
  3. Web site: The Lucky Galah. Pan MacMillan. 10 March 2019.
  4. News: 2023-08-29 . Author Tracy Sorensen was dealing with cancer. So she turned her spleen into an 'anarcho communist' . en-AU . ABC News . 2023-09-01.
  5. News: Israel . Janine . 2023-07-24 . 'It's some sort of cosmic joke': Tracy Sorensen wrote a book about surviving cancer. Now it has returned . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-09-01 . 0261-3077.
  6. Web site: Kembrey. Melanie. 2019-08-30. Tracy Sorensen named 2019 Judy Harris Writer in Residence. 2020-10-21. The Sydney Morning Herald. en.
  7. Web site: Tracy Sorensen - Faculty of Arts. Charles Sturt University. 10 March 2019.
  8. Web site: Jacinta Dimase Management Tracy Sorensen. Jacinta Dimase Management. 10 March 2019.
  9. Web site: Tracy Sorensen . 2023-09-01 . Writing NSW . en-AU.
  10. Web site: NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced. 2019-02-28. Books+Publishing. en-AU. 2019-06-04.
  11. Web site: Readings announces 2018 New Australian Fiction Award shortlist. 2018-08-22. Books+Publishing. en-AU. 2019-06-04.
  12. Web site: Indie Book Awards 2019 longlists announced. 2018-12-05. Books+Publishing. en-AU. 2019-06-04.
  13. News: Russell Prize for Humour Writing 2019 shortlist announced. 18 April 2019. 30 April 2019. Books + Publishing.
  14. Web site: Miles Franklin 2019 longlist announced. 2019-05-22. Books+Publishing. en-AU. 2019-05-22.

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