Trent Jamieson

Titles:

Roil (speculative fiction, Angry Robot 2011)

Night’s Engines (speculative fiction, Angry Robot, 2012)

Trent Jamieson is a writer who lives in Brisbane. He is the author of urban fantasy series Death Works and Death Most Definite. He’s a bit lazy and a bit vague, and if he could have a superpower, it would be to be a little bit less lazy and a little bit less vague. Oh, and he’s won a couple of awards – even people that are a little bit lazy, and a little bit vague, can win those too.

Trent Jamieson has had more than sixty short stories published over the last decade, and, in 2005, won an Aurealis award for his story “Slow and Ache”. His most recent stories have appeared in Cosmos Magazine, Zahir, Murky Depths and Jack Dann’s anthology Dreaming Again. His collection Reserved for Travelling Shows was released in 2006. He won the 2008 Aurealis Award for best YA short story with his story “Cracks”.

Trent was fiction editor of Redsine Magazine, and worked for Prime Books on Kirsten Bishop’s multi-award winning novel The Etched City. He’s a seasonal academic at QUT teaching creative writing, and has taught at Clarion South. He lives in Brisbane with his wife, Diana. He has a fondness for New Zealand beerand gloomy music.

Author website: www.trentjamieson.com 

Twitter: @trentonomicon