Debut Mondays

Andrew Grimes was born in Bendigo in 1954 and is now working on a series of historical crime novels, the first of which is The Richmond Conspiracy (Text Publishing).

He lives in Woodend with his family.

As a boy growing up in Melbourne, Peter Twohig lived in the inner suburbs, the location for his first novel, The Cartographer (Fourth Estate).

Peter had a long career in the Australian public service in Melbourne and Canberra before training in naturopathy and homoeopathy in Sydney, then setting up a practice on Sydney’s North Shore in 1995.

He has degrees in professional writing, philosophy and complementary medicine. He now lives on the Central Coast of NSW and is a full-time writer.

Nicki Reed was born in 1968, and lives in Melbourne with her husband and three sons. She says writing Unzipped, her first novel, was the best fun she ever had.

Nicki’s husband may never read Unzipped, and that is fine with her.

Kim Haworth is a young writer based in Melbourne. She has worked as a business journalist, and is a contributor to Voiceworks.

Kim Haworth is in her early twenties and has called Melbourne home since relocating for university studies five years ago. She is a recent honours graduate from the University of Melbourne, where she undertook a creative writing thesis on David Foster Wallace. Her Voiceworks contribution is partially a response to Wallace’s inspiring wealth of ideas and literary critique.

Having recently returned from overseas travel, Kim hopes her recent experiences will provide the impetus for many new short fiction and screenplay projects.