![]() ![]() “That was a real defining moment for me,” Harper recalls. Her mystery “Spiders and Flies,” set in a small Australian town, was one of only 12 short stories selected for inclusion. Her first break came in 2014, when the Big Issue, an Australian nonprofit street newspaper sold by homeless people, opened up its popular annual fiction issue to submissions. But even as she honed her ability to write concisely and on deadline, she held on to her dream of writing fiction. In 2008, after a stint as a senior news reporter in Hull, England, Harper moved back to Australia. You can get people to open up to you in a way that not a lot of other jobs allow for.” “And I really enjoyed getting a chance to speak to a variety of people about their lives. “Journalism was a way for me to write professionally,” Harper explains. and, after graduating from the University of Kent in Canterbury, became a journalist trainee with the English newspaper the Darlington & Stockton Times. Six years later, she returned to the U.K. Her time there established her connection to the country, and she became a dual citizen of the U.K. ![]() ![]() When she was eight, they settled in Australia. Her father’s job as a product manager for major computer networking companies took the family around the world. Born in Manchester, England, Harper had a peripatetic early childhood. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |