Ronnie Scott was born in 1985 and grew up on Air Force bases in the US, Malaysia and northern Australia. He is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at RMIT, where he co-directs the non/fictionLab research group, and is part of a team that researches Australian comics at foliocomics.com. He's written recently for the Age, the Guardianand the New York Times Magazine, and his books SaladDays, The Adversary, Shirley and Letter to a Fortunate Ex are published by Penguin. Visit him at ronniescott.au.