  Michael Bauer was born in Brisbane & attended the University of Queensland where he gained an Arts degree with a double major in English Literature. He then enrolled
in a Diploma of Education and became a teacher.
Michael has since taught English and Economics in a number of secondary schools in the Brisbane–Ipswich area. For the last few years he has managed regular breaks from teaching in order to pursue his writing dreams.
As well as his wife and himself, his family consists of 2 teenage children, 2 large fish, a cockatiel and, at one point, eight baby blue-tongue lizards. He lives in the beautiful Brisbane suburb of Ashgrove. This is the suburb in which he grew up, went to school, spent a number of years teaching, met his wife and where, a few streets away from his present home, in what was once a private hospital, he was born. People tell him he ‘should get out more'.
Michael Gerard Bauer won the 2003 Brisbane Writers Festival WriteSmall Competition.
His first novel The Running Man, published in 2004, received immediate acclaim, being short-listed for the 2005 NSW Premier's Literary Awards and winning the 2005 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers.
Don't Call Me Ishmael! (published in April 2006).
A comedy set in an all boys school where Ishmael and his intrepid band of grade nine misfits take on bullies, bugs, babes, the Beatles, debating and the great white whale in the toughest, the weirdest, the most embarrassingly awful … and the best year of their lives.
Awards
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