Canberra-based writer Conor Bendle has worked as a psychology, sociology and humanities teacher in Canberra. Actively involved in the city's specualtive fiction community for a number of years, he is a member of the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild and has been a co-presenter at various workshops, including the 2012 Conflux. His first published work was 'The Ceremony of Innocence,' which appears in Encounters (2004).
Bendle teaches in the Behavioural Sciences stream at Dixon College (ACT).