Phil Brown is a senior writer with Brisbane News, the author of two books of poetry, Plastic Parables (1991) and An Accident in the Evening (2001)and two humorous memoirs, Travels with My Angst (2004) and Any Guru Will Do (2006), both published by UQP.

He is a former chairman of the Brisbane Writers’ Festival and is now writing a novel based on his childhood in Hong Kong. His essays have been published in Griffith REVIEW.

His website is at www.philbrownwriter.com