Dirk Strasser

Dirk Strasser’s historical fantasy CONQUIST, set in the dying days of the Inca Empire, won a Silver Medal in the Coffee Pot Book Club Book Of The Year Award and was a finalist in the Best Fantasy Novel category of the Aurealis Awards. His screenplay version of CONQUIST was a featured finalist in the Creative World Awards.

ZENITH, EQUINOX, and ECLIPSE, his epic Books Of Ascension fantasy trilogy inspired by the mysticism of old Tibet, was published in English and German, and his middle grade urban fantasy GRAFFITI was published by Scholastic.

Dirk has won a Ditmar Award for professional achievement, his story “The Doppelgänger Effect” appeared in the World Fantasy Award-Winning anthology DREAMING DOWN UNDER, and his short stories have been translated into several languages, many of which have been collected in STORIES OF THE SAND.

He is the longtime co-editor and co-publisher of AUREALIS, Australia’s premier fantasy and science fiction magazine, and the founder of the Aurealis Awards. He has been a high school teacher, a writer of best-selling textbooks, and a publishing manager.