C.S. Boag

Over a long writing career, C. S. Boag's work has featured in numerous publications, including The Sydney Morning Herald, the former Sydney Sun newspaper and The Bulletin magazine. His first story appeared in Sydney University's Honi Soit magazine and a number of his short stories have been published since.

A former columnist and feature writer, he is a winner of the Walter Stone Memorial Prize for Literature. In the Mister Rainbow series the Hood with No Hands, Death of a Ladies' Man, Horses for Corpses, Bullets at the Ballet, The Cock Robin Killer and The Morgue the Merrier have already been released by Xoum publishers, with the final in the series, number seven Nightmare in Nimbin to be published later this year.

C. S. has traveled extensively and lived both here and overseas. He feels he speaks enough French not to die there.

He says he has renovated too many houses, driven too many taxis and bulldozers. He was a councillor on the Sydney City Council for what he calls a "chilling couple of years"; and has also worked in a hamburger bar, taught English, laboured and performed other tasks "too arduous to mention". He has five children and now lives with his wife Judith on a small holding near Bathurst.