Originally a graduate of the University of Western Australia in the mid-1960s, Victor Marsh was awarded his PhD at the University of Queensland in about 2006. In between, a varied career path took him through theatre and television and a decade as a modern-day monk, when he taught meditation in many countries in Asia, North America and the South Pacific.
In 2010, Marsh published Mr Isherwood Changes Trains, a biography of English writer Christopher Isherwood.