Claire Zorn

Claire Zorn is the multi-award-winning author of four books for young adults and the author/illustrator of one picture book. She lives on the south coast of New South Wales with her husband and two sons. Her first young adult novel, The Sky So Heavy , was a 2014 Children's Book Council of Australia Honour Book for Older Readers, shortlisted in the 2013 Aurealis Awards - Best Young Adult Novel and shortlisted in the 2014 Inky Awards. Her second young adult novel, The Protected , was the winner...See more

Claire Zorn is the multi-award-winning author of four books for young adults and the author/illustrator of one picture book. She lives on the south coast of New South Wales with her husband and two sons. Her first young adult novel, The Sky So Heavy , was a 2014 Children's Book Council of Australia Honour Book for Older Readers, shortlisted in the 2013 Aurealis Awards - Best Young Adult Novel and shortlisted in the 2014 Inky Awards. Her second young adult novel, The Protected , was the winner of four awards: the 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction; the 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards - Young Adult Fiction Prize; the 2015 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers; and the 2016 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards - Young Adult. It was also shortlisted in the 2015 Inky Awards. Her third book for young adults, One Would Think the Deep was awarded the 2017 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers. When We Are Invisible is her latest novel for young adults, and the sequel to The Sky So Heavy . Better Days is Claire's first novel for adults. See less