Chris Flynn is a former sumo wrestling referee and catwalk model who now works as a freelance writer and journalist.

He writes regularly for The Book Show on ABC Radio National, The Big Issue and Australian Book Review and is the former editor of Torpedo.

His work has appeared in Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, harvest, Dumbo Feather, The Lifted Brow, Ampersand and Going Down Swinging.

He runs ‘Dog's Tales’, a weekly storytelling night in
St Kilda.