I was born in Melbourne but currently live in Sydney with my wife and son.
I have had fiction published in Granta New Writing 14, Best Australian Short Stories 2006, Australian Short Stories, Wet Ink, The Griffith Review, Visible Ink and Antithesis.
I work at Fairfax as a producer/editor and write occasional book reviews for The Monthly magazine. In 2007 I won the Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize for the short story The Possibility of Water, which was published in the May 2008 edition of The Griffith Review.
My first novel The Low Road - which won the 2008 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction - was published by Scribe in 2007 and has been hailed as a "... dreamscape with echoes of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Samuel Beckett, Horace McCoy, Georges Simenon and Philip K. Dick ..."
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FICTION PUBLICATIONS AND PRIZES
| 2008 |
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| - | Novel 'The Low Road' winner of Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction |
| - | 'The Possibility of Water' Short Story (The Griffith Review) |
| - | 'What the Darkness Said' Short Story (Wet Ink) |
| 2007 | |
| - | Novel 'The Low Road' (Scribe Publishing) |
| - | 'The Vessel' Short story (Vignette Press Minishot) |
| - | Winner, Josephine Ulrick Prize for short story 'The Possibility of Water' |
| - | 'Growing Pains' Short story (The Big Issue) |
| 2006 | |
| - | Short story 'The Shed' included in anthology 'The Best Australian Short Stories, 2006' (Black Inc) |
| - | Short story 'The Shed' included in anthology ‘Granta New Writing 14' (Granta) |
| - | Manuscript for 'The Low Road' shortlisted for Victorian Premiers' Award for Unpublished Manuscript |
| - | Short story 'The Lonely Planet' included in anthology 'Tattle Tales' (Visible Ink) |
| 2004 | |
| - | Winner of Visible Ink short story competition for 'Room 12' |
| - | Short story 'Room 12' included in anthology 'Stitch This' (Visible Ink) |