Julian Novitz is a senior lecturer in writing at the Swinburne University of Technology. He is the author of two novels and a collection of short stories, and his work has appeared in The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Stories, Best New Zealand Fiction, The Sydney Review of Books, Wet Ink, Landfall, The NZ Listener, Sport, and other publications. He has won the Hubert Church Award for Best First Book of Fiction, the Katherine Mansfield Award, and was a recipient of the Frank Sargeson Residential Writing Fellowship.
