AUTHOR / AGRICULTURAL JOURNALIST

Carrie Tiffany's first book was named by The Sydney Morning Herald as the '2005 debut of the year' and is shortlisted for the 2006 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction in the UK. EVERYMAN'S RULES FOR SCIENTIFIC LIVING is a quirky and sinister fable about love, science and the Australian landscape.

Carrie was born in West Yorkshire and migrated to Western Australia in the early 1970s. She spent her twenties working as a park ranger in the Northern Territory and in Victoria's central highlands. She moved to Melbourne to work on salinity and Landcare for the Department of Natural Resources and now works as a freelance agricultural journalist.

She has a Masters degree in creative writing from RMIT University and is currently working towards her doctorate at Latrobe University.

Carrie's short fiction has been published in various Australian collections and highly commended by The Age, the University of Canberra, Judah Waten and HQ Flamingo short story awards. In 2002 Carrie won the Australian Book Review Short Fiction Award.

In 2003 she won the inaugural Victorian Premier's Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for an earlier version of her first novel, EVERYMAN'S RULES FOR SCIENTIFIC LIVING, which was subsequently published in August 2005 by Picador Australia and is published overseas by Scribner US and Picador UK.

Carrie has experience in teaching creative writing at a secondary and tertiary level and is able to draw on her background as a journalist as well as a novelist.