William Lane lives in a quiet, rural corner of the Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia. He shares his life with his librarian partner and his three teenage children. When he is not writing, he loves to read, play vinyl records or make up songs while looking out his window at the Brokenback Range. He has been a teacher, business manager and academic. After completing an Honours degree in
Australian literature, he completed a doctorate on the Australian writer Christina Stead and has had several critical articles on Stead published in literary journals. He is the author of five other novels published by Transit Lounge: Over the Water (2014), The Horses (2015), The Salamanders (2016), The Word (2018) and Past Life (2021). His short story collection, Small Forest, was a finalist in the inaugural Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award and was published online in 2018.