Shane Strange has an MA in Writing from Deakin University and is a tutor and lecturer in writing and literary studies at The University of Canberra. He is a writer of essays, short fiction and creative non-fiction who has been published widely in Australia. In 2014, he was a contributor to, and co-editor of the book Creative manoeuvres: writing, making, being (Cambridge Scholars Press). Between 2005-2008 he was a regular book reviewer for the Courier-Mail.