About the Author

Mark Mordue is an Australian writer, journalist and editor. He is the author of Boy on Fire, the critically acclaimed biography of the young Nick Cave, which was shortlisted for the ABIA Biography Book of the Year in 2021, as well as the highly regarded poetry collection Darlinghurst Funeral Rites (Transit Lounge, 2017), and the memoir Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip (Allen & Unwin, 2001), which was shortlisted for the 2002 Qantas/City of Brisbane Asia-Pacific Travel Writing Prize. His journalism has been published in Rolling Stone,Vogue, GQ, Interview, The Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald. He was the recipient of a 1992 Human Rights Media Award and the 2010 Pascall Prize for Australian Critic of the Year, and was co-winner of the 2014 Peter Blazey Fellowship, which recognises the development of an outstanding manuscript in the fields of biography, autobiography or life writing.