Maria Lewis

Maria Lewis is an author, screenwriter, journalist and pop culture commentator from Australia.

For the British writer and biographer, see Maria Theresa Lewis. For the Union Civil War soldier, see Maria Lewis (soldier).

Maria Lewis
BornNew Zealand
OccupationAuthor, journalist, presenter
NationalityAustralian/New Zealand
GenreFantasy fiction
Website
marialewis.com.au

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, The Daily Mail, Film Ink, i09, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, SBS, Herald Sun, BuzzFeed, ABC, Screen Australia, 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] Her fourth book, The Witch Who Courted Death,[17] was published on Halloween, 2018 and told the origin story of Corvossier 'Casper' von Klitzing and her brother Barastin, who were both first introduced in Who's Afraid Too?[18] In May 2019, it won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel.[19] Her follow-up novel about a family of banshee sisters - The Wailing Woman - is the fifth book in the series of interconnected stories, which each focus on different types of female monsters. It is often referred to as the 'Supernatural Sisters' series.[20]

Bibliography
  • Hot Stuff: Surfing Love (Caruso, Lewis, Sinclair. Woods: Jan 1, 2016: Harper Collins Publishers Australia)[21]
  • Who's Afraid? (Lewis: Jan 12, 2016: Hachette Australia)(Lewis: July 14, 2016: Piatkus UK)(Lewis: Sep 21, 2017: Piatkus UK)[22]
  • Doing It: A Sex Positive Anthology (Pickering, Lewis et al.: August 29, 2016: University Of Queensland Press)[23]
  • Who's Afraid Too? (Lewis: Jan 21, 2017: Hachette Australia) (Lewis: July 14, 2017: Piatkus UK) (Lewis: Nov 2, 2017: Piatkus UK)[24]
  • And Then... The Great Big Book Of Awesome Adventure Tales: Volume 2 (Goodman, Lewis, Nette et al: August 7, 2017: Clan Destine Press)[25]
  • It Came From The Deep (Lewis: October 21, 2017: IngramSpark)[26]
  • The Witch Who Courted Death (Lewis: October 31, 2018: Hachette Australia) (Lewis: March 9, 2019: Piatkus UK)[27]
  • Tales From Kayfabia: The Unfortunate Origins of Jimmy Havoc Audio Short Story (Lewis: November 2, 2018: Conco and the Fudge)[28]
  • The Wailing Woman (Lewis: November 1, 2019: Hachette Australia) (Lewis: March 9, 2020: Piatkus UK)[29]

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. "Horror author Maria Lewis on witches and werewolves". The West Australian. 29 October 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  18. duffythewriter (17 November 2018). "Interview with Maria Lewis about her new novel The Witch Who Courted Death". Duffy The Writer. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  19. Mem: 34921376. "Aurealis Awards 2018 announced | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  20. Smith, Jayse (27 June 2019). "Q&A: Maria Lewis & Her Upcoming Book 'The Wailing Woman'". The Nerd Daily. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  21. "Hot Stuff: Surfing Love". Harper Collins.
  22. "Who's Afraid?". Little Brown Book Group.
  23. "Doing It". University Of Queensland Press.
  24. "Who's Afraid Too?". Little Brown Books.
  25. "And Then..." Clan Destine Press.
  26. "It Came From The Deep". Amazon.
  27. Maria Lewis - The Witch Who Courted Death - Little, Brown Book Group.
  28. Toons, Gooney. "Tales From Kayfabia: The Unfortunate Origins of Jimmy Havoc Audio Short Story". Gooney Toons. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  29. The Wailing Woman. 10 April 2019.
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