Born in Papua New Guinea in 1972, Anthony Eaton spent an idyllic
childhood growing up in the Perth hills and the Cocos Keeling Islands.
He worked as a literature and drama teacher for eight years, during
which time his first novel, The Darkness, was awarded the
2001 Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Young Adult
Literature. In 2005, his historical fiction novel Fireshadow also won the WA Premier's Book Award for Young Adult Literature and was
named an Honour Book in the CBCA Book of the Year Awards. To assist in
the research for Into White Silence, he spent Christmas of
2005 at Casey Station on the east coast of Antarctica as part of the
Australian Antarctic Division's Arts Fellowships program. He lives in
Canberra with his wife, Imogen, and a slightly deranged Kelpie named
Chelsea.
