Across the Risen Sea

Bren MacDibble was raised in New Zealand and lived on farms in various villages and towns. She enjoyed writing stories on an old typewriter. As a young adult, she spent a couple of years exploring the world. She finally settled in Melbourne. After raising her children, she hit the rode again. this time on a motorbike, exploring the United States and Australia.

The books she read to her children inspired her back into writing. Her favorite genre is science fiction. She attended Clarion South in 2004. In 2011, she attended the Manuscript Development program with Queensland Writers Centre and Allen and Unwin. Her debut Young Adult book, The Dark Spaces, won the 2015 Ampersand Prize. It was written under the pseudonym, Callie Black. Her second book, How to Bee, won the 2018 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature, the 2018 NZ Book Awards for Children and YA, Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction, and the 2018 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for Young Readers. Her other work includes, Intergalactic Deliveries Inc., Splatterby Dragons Home, There's No Such Thing, Anchovy Circus, The Adventures of Zip Velocity

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