Associate Professor Dr. Gary Crew is one of Australia's most awarded authors, winning the Children's Book of the Year award four times, twice for his novels, twice for illustrated books, the National Children's Book Award, the Victorian Premier's Award, the New South Wales Premier's Award, the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, the Aurealis Award for Speculative Fiction and both the Wilderness Society Award and Royal Zoological Award for Environmental Writing. He has been twice short listed for the Edgar Allen Poe Mystery Fiction Award in the United States, awarded a Hungry Minds American Children's Book of Distinction, and twice been awarded the prestigious White Crane Award for Children's fiction in Europe.

Gary has both lectured and run writing workshops throughout Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States the East and the Pacific. His work is published in the UK, USA, Canada, France, Italy, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Indonesia and China. Gary writes fiction for both youth and adults as well as the texts of illustrated books. He has a Master of Arts in Literature, specialising in Post Colonial Fiction while his Doctorate of Creative Arts is based on the Victorian “Boy’s Own” Fiction genre.

Gary lives with his wife Christine on their property in the Blackall Ranges, near Maleny, in South East Queensland. He has three children and four grandchildren. Gary is Associate Professor, Creative Writing, and head of the school of Creative Writing at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

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