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Short-listed for Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Young Adult Book Award 2011.Short-listed for Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Writing for Young Adults 2011.Short-listed for CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers 2011.

Winner for APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Young Adult Book 2011.

Winner for Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction 2011.

Winner for NSW Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize 2011.

Take Three Girls (2017) (written collaboratively with Fiona Wood and Simmone Howell).

Words in Deep Blue (2016), Sydney, New South Wales Pan by Pan Macmillan Australia, ISBN 978-1-74261-238-6.

Rosie Staples' Minor Magical Misunderstanding (2010).

Gracie Faltrain Gets It Right (Finally) (2008).

The Life and Times of Gracie Faltrain (2004).

Crowley now runs student writing workshops and freelance writes. Her writing got a kick-start while she was grieving for her father, "I realised grief is very particular to each person," she said. Ĭrowley's most recent novel, Words in Deep Blue is a story of love, loss and the power of words. She went on to write articles for newspapers and magazines and began her first novel, The Life and Times of Gracie Faltrain. Īfter returning from Europe, Crowley studied professional writing and editing at RMIT.

She often wrote letters home to her brother who created a musical, Journey Girl, inspired by these letters. She hadn't always wanted to be a writer but was later convinced while traveling in Europe. She took courses in radio production and literature at university and then worked as an English teacher for some time. Her work has been published in Australia and internationally.Ĭrowley grew up with three siblings and a dog called Elvis. She is currently a freelance writer and part time teacher. Her books include The Gracie Faltrain Trilogy, Chasing Charlie Duskin and Graffiti Moon. Ĭrowley was born in 1971 in rural Victoria. She has been shortlisted and received numerous literary awards including the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction for her novel Graffiti Moon and, in 2017, the Griffith University Young Adult Book Award at the Queensland Literary Awards for Words in Deep Blue. Cath Crowley is a young adult fiction author based in Melbourne, Australia.