A.R. Raspa is a true-blue sandgroper, born and breed in the southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. Unemployed and eighteen, he was 800+ handwritten pages into his first novel when he realised that he might be a writer. At the age of twenty-four, Aaron enrolled at Curtin University as a mature age student and was accepted into an English literature degree — so imagine his surprised when he turned up the following year to discover his course had been discontinued and he’d been enrolled in Communication and Cultural Studies instead! Unperturbed, he chose creative writing for every minor and elective subject, often retaking courses to workshop new pieces. After completing his degree, he worked in a printshop, where he seized every opportunity to print multiple drafts of his novels and short stories. When his father passed away unexpectedly just after Easter last year, He took the next step and published one of his works. Since his dad was an avid reader and printer by trade, it seemed a fitting tribute to publish a book and include him in the acknowledgments as a way of immortalising him. Aaron is currently working at the University of Western Australia, where he has spent the last fifteen years, and lives with his wife and youngest son.