Born in Melbourne, 1968, my first memory is looking down past my nappies at all these cool-looking red rocks which seemed to be glowing (dying campfire). I was 18 months and to this day I love fire, but that’s another story. As a young lad I went and watched Jaws with my grandparents, which had ramifications, and my most memorable moment at high school was winning a speech contest by singing ‘A boy named Sue,’ by the great Johnny Cash. This too had major ramifications. Post high school I did first year science at Monash Uni before transferring to James Cook Uni, Townsville, where I studied marine biology. After diving the years away on the Great Barrier Reef and travelling Europe for 18 months, I returned to Australia and took up a pearling job based on a small island about 350 km north of Broome. After two and half years I headed back to Europe, and I also made the decision to give science away and write. After attending Italian-language school in Livorno, north west of Rome, I returned to Australia and moved to Perth where I began my first novel, about a young man who attends Italian school, and … Continue reading David Hocking