Darren Groth

Darren Groth is a Vancouver author and citizen of Canada, having moved from his native Australia in 2007. His novels include 'Kindling' and the acclaimed YA works, 'Are You Seeing Me?' and 'Munro vs the Coyote'. His new novel, 'Boy in the Blue Hammock', is out now.

Darren is a winner of the Adelaide Festival Award for Young Adult Literature and has been a finalist in numerous other prestigious prizes including the CBCA Book of the Year (Australia), the Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Australia), the Governor General's Literary Awards (Canada) and the BC & Yukon Book Prizes (Canada).

For fun, he watches 'American Ninja Warrior' with his beautiful wife and eats at Fatburger with his wondrous twins.