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Anne Casey-Hardy was born in Fremantle and grew up in Melbourne as the eldest of seven children. She won the 2018 Peter Carey Short Story Award, was shortlisted for the 2019 VU/Overland Short Story Prize and was awarded a 2021 Varuna Residential Fellowship. Her short stories and poetry have been published in Meanjin Quarterly, Island Magazine, Overland Journal, Westerly Magazine and several anthologies. Anne has previously worked as a research librarian and advocate for families of premature babies, and her work in this area has been published in The Lancet, Journal of Neonatology and Journal of Paediatric and Child Health. She lives with her husband in Melbourne's west, on Bunurong land.
'I find myself haunted by this innocent, menacing, blackly funny and fabulous book. Anne Casey-Hardy's writing hums with a dangerous, coiled energy in sly, ghostly stories of girls and women striking back, lying low, busting out, triumphing even while sinking. Casey-Hardy is a raw, rare talent with an unforgettable voice.' -- Charlotte Wood, author of The Weekend and The Natural Way of Things 'Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls buzzes with energy. Anne Casey-Hardy is a wonderful fiction writer. Her characters are brave and full of soul. In mapping the lives and the places where stories thrive, Casey-Hardy also touches our hearts. Such a gift.' -- Tony Birch, author of Dark as Last Night and The White Girl 'Casey-Hardy's stories cast a deep and unusual spell. Her collection is sharp, irreverent, and unexpectedly funny. I loved it.' -- Laura Elvery, author of Ordinary Matter 'Electric, irreverent, haunting, heart-breaking - Anne Casey-Hardy's Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls is one of the best short story collections you'll ever read. An exceptional debut from a hugely talented writer.' -- Wayne Marshall, author of Shirl 'You'll be transfixed by the misadventures of Casey-Hardy's dangerously innocent heroines. Her fractured fairytales are like nothing you've come across before: unnerving, brilliant, hilarious, heart-stirring.' -- Lucinda Holdforth, author of Leading Lines
