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Susan Parisi
Canadian-Australian author From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Susan Parisi (born 1958)[1] is a Canadian-Australian author of horror fiction. Her debut novel Blood of Dreams won the 2007 Aurealis Award for best horror novel.[2]
Biography
Susan Parisi was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1958.[1] As a teenager, she moved to Australia with her family because her father was on the run from the law.[3]
Parisi completed postgraduate studies in psychology and has been employed in occupational psychology and university administration.[3]
Currently residing in Sydney, Parisi is married to an Italian-Australian man.[3] She has a passion for Italian culture and frequently travels to Italy.[4]
Parisi is a dual Canadian-Australian citizen.[3]
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Works
In 2007, Parisi's debut novel Blood of Dreams was released by Viking.[5] A murder-mystery set in 18th-century Venice during Carnevale, it involves a killer who stalks his victims' dreams and a woman who must confront her past in order to stop him.[6]
Blood of Dreams was awarded the 2007 Aurealis Award for best horror novel and was a short-list nominee for the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel.[7]
Parisi is working her second novel Mosaic, a conspiracy-thriller set in Rome and Palermo.[4]
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Bibliography
- Blood of Dreams (2007)
References
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