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, New Australian Stories, Wet Ink, The Griffith Review, Visible Ink and Meanjin.

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 as well as New Australian Stories (Scribe) in 2009.

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 ..."

I am currently writing my second novel, called Bereft, set in rural NSW during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1919, in which a returned soldier called Quinn Walker meets a young girl he comes to believe is the spirit of his murdered sister. Imagine Wuthering Heights set in rural Australia with a soundtrack by Tom Waits...

I am represented by Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management.

Don't worry - there will be no blog, although I have succumbed to the time-wasting charms of Facebook.

FICTION PUBLICATIONS AND PRIZES

The Low Road | Scribe | Australian Literary Management | Contact