Lyn Battersby
Like so many other Australian authors, Lyn Battersby had her first publishing success with Antipodean SF. Her story, Divininities, appeared in 2001 (under the name Lyn Triffitt). Other stories and publications include (in no particular order except as they come to her):
Learned Instincts - Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine issue 7.
Cracking UP - AntiSF
The Dolphins of Haven Bay - Word Thirst
The Memory of Breathing - ASIM issue 17
The Hanging Tree - Borderlands issue 6
This is Not a Love Song - ASIM issue 34
As We Know It - Borderlands issue 10
Lily's Song - Dog Versus Sandwich
Of Woman Born - Daikaiju 2
The Conductor's Tale - Canterbury 2100
Edges - Shadowed Realms issue 9
Hush - Shadow Box
The Wedding Dress - Black Box
She was also a participant in HorrorScope's Nameless project.
Her story The Mikarr Way is appearing soon in Electric Velocipede.
The Memory of Breathing was nominated for several awards including The Ditmar and The Aurealis and won The Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation Best Professional Short Work Award.
As well as being a published writer, Lyn has also given time to editing, being involved with both ASIM and TiconderogaOnline magazines. She won the Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation Best Achievement Award in 2005 for Issue 11 of ASIM (the horror issue).
Lyn loves the genre and feels proud to be an active participant within the Australian scene. She graduated from Clarion South Writer's School in 2007 where she got to meet several of the most talented up-and-coming authors Australia has to offer, including Jason Fischer and Peter M Ball.
Her other great loves are her husband (talented author) Lee Battersby and their five amazing children.