Scot Gardner

{{short description|Australian writer}} {{Use Australian English|date=April 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Infobox writer  | name = Scot Gardner | image = | image_size = 4888x3263 | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date =  | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Writer | language = English | nationality = Australian | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''Burning Eddy''<br>''The Dead I Know'' | spouse = Robyn Grant | partner = | children = Jen, Belle, Bryce | relatives = | awards = WA Premiers Award, CBC Award for Young Adults | signature = | signature_alt = | module = | website = {{URL|scotgardner.com}} | portaldisp = }} '''Scot Gardner''' is an Australian writer known for his [[young adult novels]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Saturdays with Hilary Harper|url=http://blogs.abc.net.au/victoria/2013/05/scot-gardner-.html|publisher=ABC|access-date=12 September 2013}}</ref> He has worked as a counselor and [[youth worker]] before becoming a full-time novelist.

==Career== "I'm not exactly sure how I ended up a writer. I wanted to be a veterinarian when I was at school, but I did work experience as a vet and it was nothing like I'd imagined." - Scot Gardner

==Bibliography== {{Expand list|date=May 2016}} *''One Dead Seagull'' (2001) *''White Ute Dreaming'' (2002) *''Burning Eddy'' (2003)<ref>{{cite journal|last=Potter|first=Troy|title=(Re)constructing Masculinity: Representations of Men and Masculinity in Australian Young Adult Literature|journal=Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature|date=May 2007|volume=17|issue=1|pages=28–35|doi=10.21153/pecl2007vol17no1art1203 |url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA166696873&v=2.1&u=viva_vcu&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w|access-date=12 September 2013|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Steward|first=Joy|title=Burning Eddy (review)|journal=Reading Time: The Journal of the Children's Book Council|date=February 2004|volume=48|issue=1|pages=21–22}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=England|first=Katharine|title=Burning Eddy (review)|newspaper=The Advertiser|date=17 May 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Julian|first=Janet|title=Burning Eddy.(Young Adult Review)(Audiobook Review)|journal=Kliatt|date=January 2006|volume=40|issue=1|page=40|url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA141167900&v=2.1&u=viva_vcu&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w|access-date=12 September 2013}}</ref> *''The Legend of Kevin the Plumber'' (2004) *''Kite Dude'' (2004) *''Gravity'' (2006) *''The Other Madonna'' (2007) *''The Lonely Lady'' (2023) *''Jacobs Last Walk'' (2022) *''Fall from the Slippery Cliff'' (2021) *''The Anti-Biotics Didn't Work'' (2020) *''Jequis Ain't No Sucker'' (2001) *''One Wheel Drive'' (2007) *''The Lost King'' (2008) *''The Detachable Boy'' (2008) *''Bookmark Days'' (2009) *''The Detachable Boy: With One Loose Foot'' (2010)<ref>{{cite web|title=Review: The Detachable Boy WITH ONE LOOSE FOOT|url=http://bookverdict.com/details.xqy?uri=Product-91235498466294.xml|publisher=School Library Journal|access-date=12 September 2013}}</ref> *''Happy as Larry'' (2010) *''The Dead I Know'' (2011) *''The Way We Roll'' (2016) *''Sparrow'' (2017) *''Changing Gears'' (2018) *''Off the Map'' (2020)

== Critical studies and reviews of Gardner's work == *{{cite journal |author=Mansfield, Stephen |date=September 2011 |title=Living without remembering |journal=[[Australian Book Review]] |issue=334 |pages=66–67}} Review of ''The Dead I Know''.

==References== {{reflist|2}}

==External links== *{{official website|http://www.scotgardner.com/}}

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