Steven Carroll was born in Melbourne and grew up in Glenroy. He went to La Trobe University and taught English in high schools before playing in bands in the 1970s. After leaving the music scene he began writing as a playwright and became the theatre critic for the Sunday Age. He has recently given up his lecturing post at RMIT to write full-time and lives in Brunswick‚ Victoria. In 2008 his novel, The Time We Have Taken, won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book as well as the Miles Franklin Award‚ Australia's most prestigious literary prize.
