Craig Cormick is an award-winning Canberra author and journalist. He has published over twenty books and his awards include the ACT Book of the Year Award (1999) for Unwritten Histories (Aboriginal Studies Press, 1998) and a Queensland Premier's Literary Award (2006) for A Funny Thing Happened at 27,000 Feet... (Mockingbird Press, 2005). He is a former Chair of the ACT Writers Centre and has taught creative writing at the University of Canberra. In 2006 he was a writer in residence at the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang, and in 2008 he received an Antarctic Arts Fellowship to travel to Antarctica.
