Kirk Marshall

Kirk Marshall is an award-winning Australian writer, and teacher of Creative Writing, English Literature and Media (Film and T.V. Studies) at RMIT University.

He is the author of "A Brief Study of the Dissolute Properties of Comedy When You're Propelled Off Your Speeding Motorcycle Into A Sharp Asphalt Road, And Your Name Is Takeshi Kitano" (2013; Dynatox Ministries); "The Signatory" (2012; Skylight Press); "Carnivalesque, And: Other Stories" (2011; Black Rider Press); and "A Solution to Economic Depression in Little Tokyo, 1953".

He has written for more than seventy publications, both in Australia and overseas, including "Award-Winning Australian Writing", "Island", "Wet Ink", "Going Down Swinging", "Voiceworks", "Verandah", "Visible Ink", "fourW", "Cordite", "Mascara Literary Review", "Word Riot" (U.S.A.), "3:AM" Magazine (France), "Le Zaporogue" (France/Denmark), "(Short) Fiction Collective" (U.S.A.), "The Vein" (U.S.A.), "Danse Macabre" (U.S.A.), "WHOLE BEAST RAG" (U.S.A.), "The Seahorse Rodeo Folk Review" (U.S.A.), "The Journal of Unlikely Entomology" (U.S.A.) and "Kizuna: Fiction for Japan" (Japan).

He edits "Red Leaves / 紅葉", the English-language/Japanese bi-lingual literary journal. He now suffers migraines in two languages.