After quitting his first job as a bank clerk and being retrenched from his subsequent position as a plumber, Clinton Caward became a barman, landscape gardener, pizza cook and floatation tank maintenance technician, before moving to Nimbin with his pregnant girlfriend to train as a Rebirthing Therapist. When his partner joined a new-age church awaiting rescue from benevolent aliens, he travelled back to Sydney, where he managed a video store, wrote for a community newspaper and co-scripted a soap opera for community television. His work has appeared in the Australian, Southerly, Meanjin, Quadrant and various short story anthologies. He has completed a Master of Arts in Writing by research and lives in Sydney with his daughter.
