![]() ![]() Tracie enjoys involvement in the horror writing community. Most of her work tends towards the darker end of the speculative fiction spectrum, with reviewers describing it as “schizophrenic dark fiction”, “disturbing, surreal, and otherworldly”, “imaginative and vivid and at times graphic and unnerving”, and “genuinely original and shocking”. ![]() Since moving to Australia she has also been shortlisted once for a Shadows Award (Australia’s national horror awards) and twice for an Aurealis Award (Australia’s national speculative fiction awards). She sold her first short story in 2004 and continued the “write-submit-repeat” process, building up a body of work that earned her a Sir Julius Vogel Award (New Zealand’s national speculative fiction awards) for Best New Talent for 2007. However, her writing career did not start in earnest until 2003 when she commenced study towards a Diploma in Creative Writing. ![]() An interest in speculative fiction began in her pre-school years – one of her earliest memories is of watching her favourite show, Doctor Who, on a black-and-white television at around the age of four – followed soon after with a passion for reading and writing. ![]() Born in a small logging town in New Zealand in 1968, Tracie McBride is a New Zealander of Maori and European descent who now lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and three children. ![]()
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