Maria Lewis

Maria Lewis
Born New Zealand
Occupation Author, journalist, presenter
Nationality Australian/New Zealand
Genre Fantasy fiction
Website
marialewis.com.au

Maria Lewis is a journalist, author, and pop culture commentator from Sydney, Australia.

Early life and education

Lewis was born in New Zealand on the South Island[1] before moving to the Gold Coast, Queensland.

Career

She started her journalism career at the age of sixteen as a cadet at the Gold Coast Bulletin[2] covering the crime and police beat for several years. Her work on pop culture has appeared in publications such as Empire Magazine, Penthouse, Junkee, New York Post, The Guardian, SFX Magazine, News.com.au, NineMSN, The Daily Mail, Film Ink, Daily Life, Spook Magazine, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Yahoo7, SBS, Herald Sun, BuzzFeed, ABC, WHO Weekly and Bloody Disgusting.

Lewis is best known for her role as a panelist, presenter, writer and producer[3] on SBS Viceland's nightly news program The Feed[4] and hosting ABC's Cleverman live after-show, Cleverfan[5] for ABC. She is an ambassador for the Australian Stroke Foundation[6] after surviving a Transient ischemic attack (TIA) when she was twenty two.[7][8]

Writing

Lewis is the author of several books and short stories. Her debut novel Who's Afraid? was published globally in 2016,[9] followed by its sequel Who's Afraid Too? in 2017. Both follow protagonist Tommi Grayson from Dundee, Scotland,[10] a female werewolf, and are supposed to be a twist on Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as well as "examining the feminine grotesque and the idea of female monsters".[11] Who's Afraid Too? was nominated for an Aurealis Award in 2018 for Best Horror Novel.[12] In 2017, it was reported[13] that Who's Afraid? was optioned for television by Queensland production company Hoodlum Entertainment.[14] She made her Young Adult debut with It Came From The Deep,[15] which was self-published in 2017 and follows a teenager who discovers a merman living in a lake on the Gold Coast, Australia.[16]

Bibliography

  • Hot Stuff: Surfing Love (Caruso, Lewis, Sinclair. Woods: Jan 1, 2016: Harper Collins Publishers Australia)[17]
  • Who's Afraid? (Lewis: Jan 12, 2016: Hachette Australia)(Lewis: July 14, 2016: Piatkus UK)(Lewis: Sep 21, 2017: Piatkus UK)[18]
  • Doing It: A Sex Positive Anthology (Pickering, Lewis et al.: August 29, 2016: University Of Queensland Press)[19]
  • Who's Afraid Too? (Lewis: Jan 21, 2017: Hachette Australia) (Lewis: July 14, 2017: Piatkus UK) (Lewis: Nov 2, 2017: Piatkus UK)[20]
  • And Then... The Great Big Book Of Awesome Adventure Tales: Volume 2 (Goodman, Lewis, Nette et al: August 7, 2017: Clan Destine Press)[21]
  • It Came From The Deep (Lewis: October 21, 2017: IngramSpark)[22]
  • The Witch Who Courted Death (Lewis: October 21, 2018: Hachette Australia) (Lewis: March 9, 2019: Piatkus UK)[23]

References

  1. ↑ "Matter Of Life And Death Says Author". Gold Coast Bulletin.
  2. ↑ "Author Lets Out Werewolf Inside". Sunshine Coast Daily.
  3. ↑ "Maria Lewis". IMDB.
  4. ↑ "Armoured boobs and calling nonsense on ingrained sexism in fantasy".
  5. ↑ "ABC Indigenous Live At 9pm". ABC iView.
  6. ↑ "Maria Lewis". Australian Stroke Foundation.
  7. ↑ "The Stroke Patients Slipping Through The Cracks". MJA InSight.
  8. ↑ "Young Stroke Survivors In Australia". SBS Australia.
  9. ↑ "Who's afraid of Harry Potter not former Sydney Confidential staffer Maria Lewes".
  10. ↑ "Voyage of discovery as Kiwi author sets novel in Scottish city she'd never even visited". The Daily Record.
  11. ↑ "Feminism, She-Hulk and werewolves: An interview with Maria Lewis".
  12. ↑ "Aurealis Awards 2017 Shortlist". Hachette Australia.
  13. ↑ "Who's Afraid? To Become A TV Series". Dark Horizons.
  14. ↑ "Who's Afraid? Optioned For TV". Books And Publishing.
  15. ↑ "Best-Selling Feminist Author Maria Lewis Releases New Book 'It Came From The Deep'". GirlTalkHQ.
  16. ↑ "Maria Lewis Is Back From The Deep". 2SER 107.3FM.
  17. ↑ "Hot Stuff: Surfing Love". Harper Collins.
  18. ↑ "Who's Afraid?". Little Brown Book Group.
  19. ↑ "Doing It". University Of Queensland Press.
  20. ↑ "Who's Afraid Too?". Little Brown Books.
  21. ↑ "And Then..." Clan Destine Press.
  22. ↑ "It Came From The Deep". Amazon.
  23. ↑ Maria Lewis - The Witch Who Courted Death - Little, Brown Book Group.
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