Bram Presser
Semi-reformed punk rocker, recovering academic, occasional criminal lawyer and one-time cartoon character, Bram Presser was born in Melbourne. His stories have appeared in Vice Magazine, The Sleepers Almanac, Best Australian Stories, Award Winning Australian Writing and Higher Arc. His debut novel, The Book of Dirt, has just been named the winner of the Christina Stead Prize for fiction and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for new writing in the 2018 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, as well as the People’s Choice Award at the Sydney Writers Festival.