Chris Lynch grew up in Papua New Guinea, and currently lives on Wurundjeri country in Melbourne, Australia. A graduate of the Clarion South 2007 Writer's Workshop, he edited The Tangled Bank: Love, Wonder, and Evolution, an anthology of fiction, poetry, and artwork celebrating the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. Bashed Flat by Heaven, a micro-collection of his poetry, was published in Brisbane New Voices II. He is currently working on poetry and a novel.