BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

An Australian outback childhood, free of the dumbing effect of television, has been my chief inspiration and education. I have worked as a singer, shuffled film crews on the production side of television news in New Zealand, studied French in New Caledonia and travelled in South Africa, Namibia, The West Indies, England and Chile.

I have written for glossy lifestyle magazines, worked as a paintress in a pottery, a barmaid, and backing singer with a Pink Floyd tribute band. My short stories have been broadcast on Australian radio, and in 2002 I was awarded a mentorship by The Australian Society of Authors. In 2005 I was published in anthologies by Wakefield Press and Granta.

Whatever I happen to be working at, my real job is always writing. Alongside freelance work, in December 2005 I graduated from the University of Adelaide with an MA in Creative Writing and am currently studying towards a doctorate.

My novel Nights In The Asylum was published by Random House Australia (Vintage) on 2nd April 2007, and on 18th May by Picador UK. I live between the Isle of Man and Adelaide in South Australia and am at work on a new novel.


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