Award-winning writer and editor Kris Ashton has published four novels, nearly fifty short stories, and numerous essays and reviews. His work has appeared in Aurealis, Midnight Echo, Andromeda Spaceways and many international titles, including The Fiction Desk. Graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Western Sydney University in 1997, he has had a 25-year career as a journalist and is currently associate editor of Open Road, one of the longest running and most widely read magazines in Australia. He lives in the wilds of western Sydney with his wife, two children, and a crippling mortgage.