Paul Haines was raised in the 1970s in the wrong part of Auckland, New Zealand and moved to Australia in the 1990s. Having vowed to never call it home, he now lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughter. His first two collections were shortlisted for Australian speculative fiction awards, and one of them managed to nab the New Zealand award for Best Collection and the other the Australian Ditmar for Best Collection. His third collection is due out in 2010. Paul survived the inaugural Clarion South in 2004 and has won the Aurealis, Ditmar and Sir Julius Vogel awards for his writing. Lately he has been fighting cancer...