Background
Christine Piper was born in Seoul, South of Korea in 1979, to an Australian father and a Japanese mother. Her family lived in Seoul for a year due to her father"s work (her elder sister was born in Tokyo).
Christine Piper was born in Seoul, South of Korea in 1979, to an Australian father and a Japanese mother. Her family lived in Seoul for a year due to her father"s work (her elder sister was born in Tokyo).
She attended Cheltenham Girls High School and then went on to study creative writing at Macquarie University, the Iowa Writers’ shop and the University of Technology, Sydney, where she wrote After Darkness for her Doctor of Creative Arts degree.
She moved to Australia when she was one, and was raised and educated in Sydney. She has lived in Japan several times, teaching English and studying Japanese, most recently in 2010. She also works as a magazine copy editor and freelance writer
2014 The Australian/Vogel"s Literary Award.