Rory Barnes is the author of several novels for both adults and teenagers. Zones, which he wrote in collaboration with Damien Broderick, was short listed for the Best Young Adult Science Fiction in the 1998 Aurealis Awards. Horsehead Boy, the first volume in the Horsehead Trilogy was short listed in the same section in 1999, and was listed as a Notable Book in the Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 1999.
Rory has an Arts degree, has held the Australian Fellowship at Stanford University’s Creative Writing Centre, California, and has held a Literature Board Senior Fellowship. He has worked in teacher training and educational research and has taught creative writing.
Rory lives in Adelaide with his wife and two sons. He has a web site at:
www.adelaide.net.au/~rbarnes