Lee Battersby is the multiple-award winning author of the novels 'The Corpse-Rat King' (Angry Robot 2012) and 'Marching Dead' (Angry Robot 2013) as well as over 70 short stories, many of which are collected in 'Through Soft Air' (Prime Books 2006). He has appeared in markets as diverse as Year's Best Fantasy & Horror Volume 20; Year's Best Australian F&SF; Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror vol. 3; and Dr Who: Destination Prague.
His work has been praised for its consistent attention to voice and narrative muscle, and has resulted in a number of awards including the Aurealis, Australian Shadows and Australian SF ‘Ditmar' gongs. He was the 6th Australian, and 1st Western Australian, winner in the international 'Writers of the Future' competition in 2001.
In 2007 he was a tutor at renowned international SF workshop Clarion South, where he learned to play Mafia and helped inspire at least one discussion of impact physics in unicorn-porn horror stories. He was editor of issue 4 of Midnight Echo and acted as judge for both the 2011 Aurealis awards and 2011 AHWA Flash/Short Fiction Competition. He was content creator for the Writing the SF Short Story course at the Australian Writers Marketplace Online and tutored the first run of the course in 2011.
Lee is represented by Richard Henshaw of the Richard Henshaw Group. If you'd like to offer him millions of dollars to run naked through the streets of your town, contact Richard and he'll sort out the contract.
Lee lives in Mandurah, Western Australia, with his wife, writer Lyn Battersby and an increasingly weird mob of kids. He is sadly obsessed with Lego, Nottingham Forest football club, dinosaurs and Daleks. He's been a stand-up comic, tennis coach, cartoonist, poet, and tax officer in previous times, and he currently works as Arts Officer for a local council, where he gets to play with artists all day. All in all, life is pretty good.
