Bruce Pascoe is an award-winning Australian writer, editor and anthologist. His books include Shark, Ruby-eyed Coucal, Ocean, Earth and Nightjar. Bruce has also written a number of nonfiction works, the latest include Convincing Ground, a Wathaurong language dictionary and The Little Red, Yellow, Black Book. His novel, Bloke, was published in 2009. The children's novel, The Chainsaw File, was published by Oxford in 2011. He is currently working on the retrieval and teaching of the Wathaurong language of south western Victoria. Bruce is a member of Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative, Bunurong heritage, and is a Board member of Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages. He is married to Lyn Harwood, has two children and lives at Gipsy Point, Far East Gippsland in Victoria.