Stephen Orr was a runner-up in the 2000 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for his first novel, Attempts to Draw Jesus. He is currently working on a novel about a religious cult in the Barossa Valley of the 1950s. He lives in Adelaide with his wife and two sons, teaching science and horticulture in between bouts of writing.
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