Alice Nelson is an Australian writer who has spent several years living and studying abroad. She studied creative writing at the University of Western Australia and in the renowned Master’s program at the City University of New York in Manhattan.

Her award-winning short fiction has appeared in journals such as Southerly and Westerly and she has been awarded residential fellowships at the Dorset Writer’s Colony in Vermont, La Muse Writers’ Centre in Languedoc in the south of France and at Varuna – The Writers’ House in the Blue Mountains.

Alice lives in Perth and is currently working on a second novel.

See "The Last Sky" page on Fremantle Press website

A short biography...

See Alice's biography in Perth Woman magazine (PDF format 2.2mb)

Awards...

The Last Sky was the winner of the TAG Hungerford Prize for best new fiction.

The Last Sky was short-listed for The Australian/Vogel Literary Award.

Book Club Notes...

See The Last Sky's Book Club Notes from Fremantle Press (PDF format 596kb)