Cirrus@Austlit

Carolyn Van Langenberg grew up in the rural hinterland of the far north coast of New South Wales, and later moved to live in the Blue Mountains. She has widely travelled in Southeast Asia and Europe.

Apart from her novels and appearances at literary festivals such as the Byron Bay Writers Festival, Van Langenberg also had short stories and poetry published in local and overseas magazines such as Kalimat: an Australian-Arabic literary quarterly, Shearsman, Aesthetica, and Carolina Quarterly. She was runner-up for the Eleanor Dark Foundation Varuna Fellowhip in 1991, and used the 2001 Literature Board (Australia Council) grant to research the writer G. M. Glaskin (q.v.). Van Langenberg has been an Honorary Associate in the Department of English, School of Letters, Art, and Media at the University of Sydney and presented a paper entitled 'Writing Penang' at the Penang Story - International Conference 2002 in Malaysia, which discussed the research necessary for writing her Fish Lips trilogy. After completing Blue Moon, Van Langenberg has concentrated on her poetry.