Tony Birch

Tony Birch was born in 1957 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He studied at the University of Melbourne and has a PhD in Urban cultures and histories. He is a poet, short story writer and novelist. Some of his work includes the novels Blood (2011), and Ghost River which won the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing. His three short story collections are Shadowboxing (2006), Father's Day (2009) and The Promise (2014). He is also a contributor to ABC local and national radio and a regular guest at writers' festivals, and is a Senior Research Fellow at Victoria University.