About the Author

I write character-driven science fiction from my home in Southern Tasmania. By day, I work as an acute care nurse—a high-pressure environment that for over twelve years has given me a profound, front-row seat to human resilience, compassion, and the quiet strength of the human spirit.

When I am free, I like to step into both the digital and natural worlds. I am an avid astrophotographer, capturing deep-space objects in the night sky—including the stunning view of the Orion Nebula that I photographed for my debut book cover. I can also be found walking around gardens taking macro photos of plants and small insects. When I am not behind a camera, I am a tech enthusiast who spends my downtime tinkering with web applications to help me with personal projects.

As an author navigating dyslexia, I spent years being told by teachers that I wouldn't achieve much — that a daily battle with spelling and reading meant the stories and ideas locked inside my head didn't count for much either. I've since earned a Bachelor's degree and a Postgraduate Certificate in Acute Care Nursing, and my debut novel, The Bread of Life, is now finding its way to readers. If you've ever been counted out because your brain processes the world a little differently, consider this your reminder: the system doesn't get to decide your ceiling. That intersection of vulnerability and technology inspired the novel itself — my writing tackles the friction between an oppressive, automated system that reduces people to data points, and the timeless faith that calls them by name.

Getting those stories out of my head and onto the page was never a shortage of imagination — my mind is constantly flooded with space colonies, intricate AI networks, and characters demanding their own arcs. The friction has always been the spelling and punctuation fighting me at every step. I didn't get here alone: my wife has been an unwavering collaborator and anchor through the whole process, and I leaned hard on the tools that make storytelling accessible regardless of how your brain handles spelling — speech-to-text to speak a world into existence, text-to-speech to hear my own chapters read back so I could catch their rhythm, and no shortage of editing software to catch what my brain naturally skips past. If a story is sitting in you and the mechanics of getting it onto the page feel like the real barrier, I'd say the same thing to you: the tools exist now. Don't let spelling be the reason your voice doesn't get told.

If you'd like to chat about the book, or writing in general, I'd love to hear from you — feel free to send me a message over on Goodreads.