About the author

Harry Saddler was born in Canberra, Australia, in 1979, and has lived in Melbourne since 2004. He is the author of two books of fiction, both published by Ginninderra Press: We Both Know: ten stories about relationships (2005), and Small Moments (2007), a short novel about the aftermath of the Canberra bushfires of 2003. In 2014 he was joint-winner of the Melbourne Writers Festival/Blurb Inc “Blog-to-Book Challenge” for his blog Noticing Animals (http://www.noticinganimals.blogspot.com) and as a result his first non-fiction book, Not Birdwatching: reflections on noticing animals, was published in December 2014. In 2015 his piece Thought Experiment, examining questions of human and non-human consciousness, was shortlisted for the Lifted Brow Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction.

He can be contacted on Twitter @MondayStory and by email at harry.saddler at gmail.com.