Garry has extensive travel and teaching expérience, won Australian ecoturism, community project and literary prizes and grants, including for a NSW Bicentennial Project, 'Great North Walk', a 250km walking track. After many years proprietorship of Great Australian Walks, he focused on creative work - * photography and painting exhibitions * poetry performance and articles in popular and literary media * ten eBooks and six paperbacks, including two novels. Recent Awards: WINNER, Peter Cowan Short Story Prize, 2015, with 'Patting the Dog', included in 'Inner Flash'; Highly Commended, Peter Cowan Short Story Prize, 2013; Second, National Poetry Prize, 2014. His first novel, 'Belonging', is a fictional-biography of a 'black doctor' in colonial Australia. His second, 'Forgetting and Remembering' or Trust', where an indigenous-death-in-custody and the disappearance of a Bicentennial official,creates merry-hell on an outback town - 'a murder-mystery turned UPSIDE DOWN DOWN-UNDER! His current third novel, 'Knowing Simone', in Victor Hugo's France. In the last years of its dictatorial 'Third Empire', Patrice, a young anarchist on-the-run, meets a powerful women in a precarious situation. Patrice sets out to 'know' Simone, their unlikely alliance involving sex, perversity, intrigue and betrayal. A case of dynamite romance that rocks the Empire. Garry is current president of the Balmain Institute, a member of 'That Authors Collective' and 'Diverse' poetry group. He lives in the great and beautiful Sydney.
