Maria Lewis

Maria Lewis: Biography in Details

Who is Maria Lewis?

Maria Lewis is an Australian author, screenwriter, and journalist. She is also a producer and pop culture commentator based in Sydney, Australia.

Lewis is best known for her work on SBS Viceland’s The Feed and Cleverman after-show Cleverfan on ABC. She is an ambassador for the Australian Stroke Foundation.

Who are the parents of Maria Lewis?

Lewis was born on 24 Oct 1988 in South Island, New Zealand. The name of her father and mother is behind the curtain.

Later, she moved to the Gold Coast, Queensland.

Her ancestry is Kiwi and as per her academics, the data is not revealed.

Maria Lewis: Professional Life, Career

Maria Lewis started her journalism career at the age of sixteen as a cadet at the Gold Coast Bulletin where she covered the crime and police beat for several years.

Pop Culture

Her work on pop culture has appeared in publications such as Empire Magazine, Penthouse, Junkee, New York Post, The Guardian, SFX Magazine, The Daily Mail, Film Ink, i09, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Herald Sun, BuzzFeed, ABC, Screen Australia, WHO Weekly and Bloody Disgusting.

Author

Lewis published her debut novel – Who’s Afraid? in 2016 worldwide. Its sequel – Who’s Afraid Too? – released worldwide in 2017.

Both follow protagonist Tommi Grayson from Dundee, Scotland, a female werewolf, and are supposed to be a twist on the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as well as “examining the feminine grotesque and the idea of female monsters”.

Who’s Afraid? is currently being adapted for television by Hoodlum Entertainment, the team behind Secrets & Lies, Tidelands, and Harrow.

Then, she made her Young Adult debut with It Came From The Deep self-published in 2017 which follows a teenager who discovers a merman living in a lake on the Gold Coast, Australia.

Her fourth book, The Witch Who Courted Death, was published on Halloween, 2018 that told the origin story of Corvossier ‘Casper’ von Klitzing and her brother Barastin, who were both first introduced in Who’s Afraid Too?

Lewis’s fifth book The Wailing Woman – is a follow-up novel about a family of banshee sisters. It is a series of interconnected stories, which each focus on different types of female monsters and are often referred to as the ‘Supernatural Sisters’ series.

Actress

Maria Lewis has appeared with small roles in the movie Little Monster(2019) and the Tv series The Feed(2016-17).

Nomination

Her book Who’s Afraid Too? won Aurealis Awards in 2018 for Best Horror Novel. In May 2019, her book The Witch Who Courted Death won the Aurealis Awards for Best Fantasy Novel.

How Much Does Maria Lewis earn from writing?

As of 2023, Maria Lewis’s net worth is $50,000 US approximately which she earned from her writing. But her per year salary is not yet calculated.

Body Measurements: Height, Weight

Maria Lewis has brown eyes with rainbow color dyed hair. She stands at 5 feet 2 inches in height and has an average body weight.

Social Media

Maria Lewis is active on Twitter and Instagram accounts but not on Facebook. She has more than 7136 followers on her Twitter account and she has over 3780 followers on her Instagram accounts.

Facts/Trivia

• She is 32 years old as of 2021.
• Her zodiac sign is Scorpio.
• She loves watching wrestling.
• She is two times the winner of the Aurealis Awards.

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