Hannett, Lisa

Lisa Hannett is an award-winning Canadian-Australian writer and academic. She has a PhD in Old Norse-Icelandic literature and is an Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Flinders University. A prolific writer of short speculative fiction imbued with the flavour of Norse myth and legend, Lisa has had over 75 short stories published, plus five collections and a novel. She has won four Aurealis Awards, an Australian National Science Fiction Award, an Australian Shadows Award, and her first book was nominated for a World Fantasy Award. Lisa writes reviews for The Australian Book Review and is a frequent guest on ABC Radio Adelaide’s ‘Book of the Week’ segment with David Bevan. She’s spoken about Vikings on ABC Radio Sydney, Hobart and Melbourne, and has been a guest on ABC Radio National’s ‘The Bookshelf’. Her article ‘The Politics of Retelling Norse Mythology’ in The Atlantic (Feb 2017) has reached millions of readers around the world.