Pierlot, Maura: - Maura Pierlot is an award-winning author and playwright who hails from New York, but has called Canberra, Australia home since the early 1990s.
For further information on Maura and her work, Fragments please visit: https: //maurapierlot.com and https: //fragmentstheplay.com..
When she\'s not busy writing, Maura visits schools and libraries as a guest reader and speaker, serves as a Role Model for Books in Homes, and contributes reviews for the Children\'s Book Council of Australia\'s online magazine, Reading Time.
Maura has a bachelor\'s degree, master\'s degree and doctorate, each in philosophy, specialising in ethics.
Maura\'s poetry, short stories, microfiction and essays appear in various literary journals and anthologies.
Maura\'s debut picture book, The Trouble in Tune Town won the 2018 ACT Writing and Publishing Award (Children\'s category) along with international accolades.
In 2017 she was named winner of the CBCA Aspiring Writers Mentorship Program, and recipient of the Charlotte Waring Barton Award, for her young adult manuscript, Freefalling (now True North).
A former medical news reporter and editor of Australian Medicine, Maura also writes for children and young adults.
Her plays have been performed in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane.
Maura is a past winner of the SOLO Monologue Competition, Hothouse Theatre for her play, Tapping Out.
The work is published online by Australian Plays Transforms and in print by Big Ideas Press.
Following its sellout 2019 season in Canberra, Maura\'s debut professional theatre production, Fragments is being adapted for the digital space, supported by artsACT.
Her writing delves into complex issues including memory, identity, self and, more recently, mental health.
Pierlot, Maura: - Maura Pierlot is an award-winning author and playwright who hails from New York, but has called Canberra, Australia home since the early 1990s
