- Born 1975
- Grew up in Sydney, Australia
- Three older siblings
- German and Austrian parents
- Grew up hearing stories about World War II: parents told him about bombings in Munich and Vienna, the red sky, and his mom saw a boy try to help a Jewish man by giving him bread, but a soldier caught them, took the bread away, and whipped them both
- Studied teaching and taught high school
- Began writing at 16 and completed his first document at age 18
- He currently lives in New South Wales, Australia