Paul Haines was raised in the ‘70s, in the wrong part of Auckland, New Zealand. After completing a degree in the frozen, drunken depths of Otago he wound up working in computers and was eventually lured by sex and money to Australia in the‘90s. Vowing to never call it home, he now lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughter.

While travelling through a desert somewhere in Rajastahn, 1998, he decided to quit his day job and become a writer. Unfortunately, he quickly realised he needed money to maintain his lavish lifestyle and still has his day job.

For his pain, Paul survived the inaugural Clarion South writers workshop in 2004, and has won an Aurealis Award, three Ditmars (Aussie sci-fi awards) for his short fiction. He is also a member of the Melbourne- based speculative fiction writers group SuperNOVA. His first short story collection Doorways For The Dispossessed was published by Prime Books in 2006 and won the New Zealand Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Collection.

Lately, he's been struggling to contain Brendan Duffy. And fight cancer.