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'''Krissy Kneen''' is a Brisbane based bookseller and writer. Kneen has been shortlisted three times for the [[Queensland Premier's Literary Award]], and in 2014 won the [[Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize]].
'''Kris Kneen''' (formerly '''Krissy Kneen''') is a [[Brisbane]]-based writer. Kneen has been shortlisted four times for the [[Queensland Premier's Literary Award]].


==Career==
She is the author of a short collection of erotica, ''Swallow the Sound'', and a memoir, ''Affection''. Kneen has also penned a collection of erotica entitles ''Triptych'' and will soon release her first novel ''Steeplechase''. Her work is described as "Transgressive, sardonic, lyrical, comic; irresistibly erotic yet also romantic, Krissy Kneen’s writing has been acclaimed for its fearless honesty. In this suite of linked stories, she addresses taboos of all kinds with a subtle wit and an insistence on sexual pleasure that will delight readers"<ref>[http://textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/book/triptych/ ''Triptych'']</ref>
{{As of|2009}}, Kneen was marketing and promotions officer at Avid Reader bookshop.<ref name=mwf2009>{{Cite web |title=Krissy Kneen – Melbourne Writers Festival |url=http://www.mwf.com.au/2009/content/mwf_2009_standard.asp?name=KneenK |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310170911/http://www.mwf.com.au/2009/content/mwf_2009_standard.asp?name=KneenK |archive-date=10 March 2011 |access-date=4 June 2012}}</ref>


They have written two collections of [[erotica]]—''Swallow the Sound'' (2007) and ''Triptych'' (2011)—as well as four novels. They are also the author of three memoirs. ''Affection'' (2009) deals with their childhood and young adulthood through the lens of sexuality, ''The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen'' (2021) is principally about their grandmother, and ''Fat Girl Dancing'' (2023) concerns their relationship with their body.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kavanagh |first=Bec |date=2021-05-13 |title=The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen by Krissy Kneen review – memoir as both fairytale and defiant truth |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/14/the-three-burials-of-lotty-kneen-by-krissy-kneen-review-memoir-as-both-fairytale-and-defiant-truth |access-date=2023-05-06 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Kavanagh |first=Bec |date=2023-05-04 |title=Fat Girl Dancing by Kris Kneen review – the intimacies and indignities of living in a fat body |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/05/fat-girl-dancing-by-kris-kneen-review-the-intimacies-and-indignities-of-living-in-a-fat-body |access-date=2023-05-06 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Their sole poetry collection, ''Eating my Grandmother'' (2015), won the [[Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-05-11 |title=Books that Changed Me: Krissy Kneen |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/books-that-changed-me-krissy-kneen-20170510-gw18n0.html |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}</ref>
She is founding member of Eatbooks Inc and is the marketing and promotions officer at Avid Reader bookshop.<ref>[http://www.mwf.com.au/2009/content/mwf_2009_standard.asp?name=KneenK Krissy Kneen - Melbourne Writers Festival]</ref> She lives in New Farm, Brisbane with her husband and no pets.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2008/10/23/2399498.htm Author and blogger Krissy Kneen]</ref>


They appeared in four events at the 2017 [[Brisbane Writers Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uplit.com.au/festival/brisbane-writers-festival-2017|title=Brisbane Writers' Festival 2017|access-date=11 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911232556/http://uplit.com.au/festival/brisbane-writers-festival-2017/|archive-date=11 September 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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==Published works==

*Swallow the Sound (ISBN 9780980323207), published in 2007<ref>[http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Swallow-Sound-Krissy-Kneen/9780980323207 "Swallow the Sound, Krissy Kneen"]</ref>
==Style and critical reception==
*Affection: A Memoir of Love, Sex & Intimacy (ISBN 9781921656729), published in 2009<ref>[http://www.penguin.com.au/products/9781921656729/affection-memoir-love-sex-intimacy "Affection: A Memoir of Love, Sex & Intimacy, Krissy Kneen"]</ref>

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*''Triptych, An Erotic Adventure: 3 Stories in 1'' (ISBN 9781921758706), published in 2011<ref>[http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=author:%22Kneen%2C%20Krissy%2C%201968-%22&iknowwhatimean=1 Krissy Kneen - National Library of Australia]</ref>
Kneen's work has been described as "transgressive, sardonic, lyrical, comic; irresistibly erotic yet also romantic" and "acclaimed for its fearless honesty".<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 October 2011 |title=Triptych, An Erotic Adventure: 3 Stories in 1, book by Kris Kneen |url=https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/triptych |website=The Text Publishing Company}}</ref>
*''Steeplechase'' (2013)


==Awards and nominations==
==Awards and nominations==
* 2010: [[Australian Book Industry Awards]], Shortlist: ''Affection''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.textpublishing.com.au/blog/australian-book-industry-awards-2010shortlists-announced|title=Australian Book Industry Awards 2010 Shortlists Announced|last=|first=|date=26 May 2010|website=Text Publishing|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=28 January 2020}}</ref>
*Shortlisted three times for the [[Queensland Premier's Literary Award]].
* 2005: [[Queensland Premier's Literary Awards|Queensland Premier's Literary Awards: Emerging Manuscript]], Shortlist: ''His Father's Son''
*Shortlisted, Biography of the Year, ABIA, 2010
* 2007: [[Queensland Premier's Literary Awards|Queensland Premier's Literary Awards: Emerging Queensland Author Manuscript Award]], Shortlist: ''Paper Dolls, Holding Hands''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://statements.qld.gov.au/Statement/Id/53501|title=Queensland Literary Awards Shortlist Announced|last=|first=|date=16 August 2007|website=Queensland Government|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=28 January 2020}}</ref>
*Shortlisted, Non-Fiction category, QLD Premier’s Literary Awards, 2010
* 2010: [[Queensland Premier's Literary Awards|Queensland Premier's Literary Awards: Non-Fiction Book Award]], Shortlist: ''Affection''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://statements.qld.gov.au/Statement/Id/71092|title=Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Shortlist Announced|last=|first=|date=16 August 2010|website=Queensland Government|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=28 January 2020}}</ref>
* 2018: [[Stella Prize]], Shortlist: ''An Uncertain Grace''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thestellaprize.com.au/prize/2018-prize/|title=The 2018 Stella Prize|last=|first=|date=|website=Stella Prize|access-date=11 March 2018}}</ref>
* 2014: [[Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize]], Winner: ''Eating My Grandmother: A Grief Cycle''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/210893648|title=Eating My Grandmother: A Grief Cycle|website=Trove Books, National Library of Australia|accessdate=10 February 2018}}</ref>
* 2019: [[Queensland Literary Awards|Queensland Literary Awards: Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance]], Shortlist: ''Wintering''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/2019-queensland-literary-awards-winners-and-finalists|title=2019 Queensland Literary Awards Winners and Finalists|last=|first=|date=|website=State Library of Queensland|url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=28 January 2020}}</ref>
* 2024: [[Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction]], Shortlist: ''Fat Girl Dancing''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-12-19 |title=Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2023/12/19/244938/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2024-shortlists-announced/ |access-date=2023-12-19 |publisher=Books+Publishing}}</ref>

==Personal life==
{{As of|2009}}, Kneen was living in [[New Farm, Queensland|New Farm, Brisbane]] with their husband.<ref name=mwf2009/>

Their grandmother was born in [[Egypt]] to a Slovenian mother and a father who had lived in Egypt for at least three generations and whose mother was [[Syrians|Syrian]], and most likely Jewish.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Watson |first=S. J. |date=2023-11-05 |title=Taming the ghosts: Using horror as metaphor |url=https://sjwatson.substack.com/p/taming-the-ghosts-using-horror-as |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=S J Watson's Compendia}}</ref>

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==Published works==
=== Novels ===
* ''Swallow the Sound'', Eatbooks, 2007, {{ISBN|9780980323207}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Swallow-Sound-Krissy-Kneen/9780980323207 |title="Swallow the Sound, Krissy Kneen" |access-date=4 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150410051811/http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Swallow-Sound-Krissy-Kneen/9780980323207 |archive-date=10 April 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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* ''Triptych, An Erotic Adventure: 3 Stories in 1'', Text Publishing, 2011, {{ISBN|9781921758706}}<ref>[http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=author:%22Kneen%2C%20Krissy%2C%201968-%22&iknowwhatimean=1 Krissy Kneen – National Library of Australia]</ref>
* ''Steeplechase'', Text Publishing, 2013, {{ISBN|9781922079879}}
* ''The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine'', Text Publishing, 2015, {{ISBN|9781922079381}}
* ''An Uncertain Grace'', Text Publishing, 2017, {{ISBN|9781925355987}}
* ''Wintering'', Text Publishing, 2018, {{ISBN|9781925603880}}

=== Memoirs ===
''Affection: A Memoir of Love, Sex & Intimacy'', Text Publishing, 2009, {{ISBN|9781921656729}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Affection: A Memoir of Love, Sex & Intimacy, Krissy Kneen |url=http://www.penguin.com.au/products/9781921656729/affection-memoir-love-sex-intimacy |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110308030037/http://www.penguin.com.au/products/9781921656729/affection-memoir-love-sex-intimacy |archive-date=8 March 2011 |website=Penguin Books Australia}}</ref>

''The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen: Travels with My Grandmother's Ashes'', Text Publishing, 2021, {{ISBN|9781922330161}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen: Travels with My Grandmother’s Ashes |url=https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-three-burials-of-lotty-kneen-a-voyage-to-find-my-grandmother |website=Text Publishing}}</ref>

''Fat Girl Dancing'', Text Publishing, 2023, {{ISBN|9781922790217}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fat Girl Dancing |url=https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/fat-girl-dancing |website=Text Publishing}}</ref>

===Poetry===
* ''Eating My Grandmother: A Grief Cycle'', University of Queensland Press, 2015, {{ISBN|9780702253744}}

=== Contributed chapter ===
* "The university and the beast: a fairy tale", pp.&nbsp;263–276, in: ''Destroying the Joint'', edited by [[Jane Caro]], Read How You Want, 2015, {{ISBN|9781459687295}}


==References==
==References==
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<references />

==Further reading==
*{{cite web | title=Memoir author Kris Kneen on how to write and edit your story into a compelling book that connects with readers | website=[[ABC News (Australia)]]|author= Kneen, Kris | date=18 June 2023 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-18/memoir-author-kris-kneen-share-tips-to-write-and-edit-your-story/102482496 }}


==External links==
==External links==
*{{official website|http://www.krissykneen.com/}}
*[http://textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/author/krissy-kneen/ Krissy Kneen, Text Publishing]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120324213714/http://textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/author/krissy-kneen/ Kris Kneen, Text Publishing]
*[http://krissykneen.tumblr.com/links Krissy Kneen on Tumblr]
*[http://www.furiousvaginas.com/ Official web-site]


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Krissy Kneen
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NationalityAustralian
Website
www.krissykneen.com

Kris Kneen (formerly Krissy Kneen) is a Brisbane-based writer. Kneen has been shortlisted four times for the Queensland Premier's Literary Award.

Career

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As of 2009, Kneen was marketing and promotions officer at Avid Reader bookshop.[1]

They have written two collections of erotica—Swallow the Sound (2007) and Triptych (2011)—as well as four novels. They are also the author of three memoirs. Affection (2009) deals with their childhood and young adulthood through the lens of sexuality, The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen (2021) is principally about their grandmother, and Fat Girl Dancing (2023) concerns their relationship with their body.[2][3] Their sole poetry collection, Eating my Grandmother (2015), won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize.[4]

They appeared in four events at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival.[5]

Style and critical reception

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Kneen's work has been described as "transgressive, sardonic, lyrical, comic; irresistibly erotic yet also romantic" and "acclaimed for its fearless honesty".[6]

Awards and nominations

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Personal life

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As of 2009, Kneen was living in New Farm, Brisbane with their husband.[1]

Their grandmother was born in Egypt to a Slovenian mother and a father who had lived in Egypt for at least three generations and whose mother was Syrian, and most likely Jewish.[14]

Published works

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Novels

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  • Swallow the Sound, Eatbooks, 2007, ISBN 9780980323207[15]
  • Triptych, An Erotic Adventure: 3 Stories in 1, Text Publishing, 2011, ISBN 9781921758706[16]
  • Steeplechase, Text Publishing, 2013, ISBN 9781922079879
  • The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine, Text Publishing, 2015, ISBN 9781922079381
  • An Uncertain Grace, Text Publishing, 2017, ISBN 9781925355987
  • Wintering, Text Publishing, 2018, ISBN 9781925603880

Memoirs

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Affection: A Memoir of Love, Sex & Intimacy, Text Publishing, 2009, ISBN 9781921656729[17]

The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen: Travels with My Grandmother's Ashes, Text Publishing, 2021, ISBN 9781922330161[18]

Fat Girl Dancing, Text Publishing, 2023, ISBN 9781922790217[19]

Poetry

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  • Eating My Grandmother: A Grief Cycle, University of Queensland Press, 2015, ISBN 9780702253744

Contributed chapter

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  • "The university and the beast: a fairy tale", pp. 263–276, in: Destroying the Joint, edited by Jane Caro, Read How You Want, 2015, ISBN 9781459687295

References

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  1. ^ a b "Krissy Kneen – Melbourne Writers Festival". Archived from the original on 10 March 2011. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
  2. ^ Kavanagh, Bec (13 May 2021). "The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen by Krissy Kneen review – memoir as both fairytale and defiant truth". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  3. ^ Kavanagh, Bec (4 May 2023). "Fat Girl Dancing by Kris Kneen review – the intimacies and indignities of living in a fat body". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  4. ^ "Books that Changed Me: Krissy Kneen". The Sydney Morning Herald. 11 May 2017. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  5. ^ "Brisbane Writers' Festival 2017". Archived from the original on 11 September 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  6. ^ "Triptych, An Erotic Adventure: 3 Stories in 1, book by Kris Kneen". The Text Publishing Company. 3 October 2011.
  7. ^ "Australian Book Industry Awards 2010 Shortlists Announced". Text Publishing. 26 May 2010. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  8. ^ "Queensland Literary Awards Shortlist Announced". Queensland Government. 16 August 2007. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  9. ^ "Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Shortlist Announced". Queensland Government. 16 August 2010. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  10. ^ "The 2018 Stella Prize". Stella Prize. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
  11. ^ "Eating My Grandmother: A Grief Cycle". Trove Books, National Library of Australia. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  12. ^ "2019 Queensland Literary Awards Winners and Finalists". State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  13. ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 19 December 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  14. ^ Watson, S. J. (5 November 2023). "Taming the ghosts: Using horror as metaphor". S J Watson's Compendia. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  15. ^ ""Swallow the Sound, Krissy Kneen"". Archived from the original on 10 April 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
  16. ^ Krissy Kneen – National Library of Australia
  17. ^ "Affection: A Memoir of Love, Sex & Intimacy, Krissy Kneen". Penguin Books Australia. Archived from the original on 8 March 2011.
  18. ^ "The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen: Travels with My Grandmother's Ashes". Text Publishing.
  19. ^ "Fat Girl Dancing". Text Publishing.

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