Justine Larbalestier
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Justine Larbalestier | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 58–59) Sydney, Australia |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Period | 1997–present |
| Genre | Young adult fantasy |
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Justine Larbalestier (/ˌlɑːrbəˈlɛsti.ɛər/ LAR-bə-LEST-ee-air;[1][2] born 1967 is an Australian writer of young adult fiction best known for her 2009 novel, Liar.
Larbalestier was born and raised in Sydney. She now alternates residence between Sydney and New York City.
In 2001 she married the American science fiction writer Scott Westerfeld,[3] whom she met in New York City in 2000.[4]
Selected works
YA Novels
- Magic or Madness trilogy
- Magic or Madness (Penguin, 2005). ISBN 978-1-59514-022-7
- Magic Lessons (Penguin, 2006). ISBN 978-1-59514-124-8
- Magic's Child (Penguin, 2007). ISBN 9781595140647
- Other
- How to Ditch Your Fairy (Bloomsbury, 2008). ISBN 978-1-59990-301-9
- Liar (Bloomsbury, 2009). ISBN 978-1-59990-305-7
- Team Human (HarperTeen, 2012), Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan. ISBN 978-0-06-208964-9
- Razorhurst (Allen & Unwin, 2014). ISBN 9781743319437
- My Sister Rosa (Soho Press, 2016). ISBN 9781616956745
Books edited
- Zombies vs. Unicorns (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2010), eds. Larbalestier and Holly Black. ISBN 978-1-4169-8-953-0
Adult Novels
- The Mortons (with Scott Westerfeld) (Penguin Random House, upcoming, 2026)
Short fiction
- "The Cruel Brother" (2001), Strange Horizons, 22 October[5]
- "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" (2004) in Agog! Smashing Stories (Agog! Press), ed. Cat Sparks
- "Elegy" (2019) in Foreshadow edited by Emily X R Pan and Nova Ren Sum
- "When I Was White" (2020) in Come On In edited by Adi Alsaid, Inkyard Press
Nonfiction
- "Ending the Battle of the Sexes? Hermaphroditism in 'Venus Plus X' by Theodore Sturgeon and 'Motherhood, Etc.' by L. Timmel Duchamp", The New York Review of Science Fiction, January 1997, pp. 14–16.[6]
- Opulent Darkness: The Werewolves of Tanith Lee (New Lambton: Nimrod Publications, 1999). ISBN 978-0-909242-52-7 – Babel Handbooks on Fantasy and SF Writers, no. 9 (20 pages)[7]
- The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press, 2002).
- Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, edited (Wesleyan, 2006).
