Coverdale grew up in places Australians call ‘remote’: the Alice, the Barkly Tableland, the Queensland channel country, and the South Australian wheat belt. He read whatever the mail truck brought, and felt the pull of foreign lands. After studying English literature, he got on his bike and set to roaming and writing. These habits were funded variously by picking fruit, stacking bricks, delivering parcels, washing dishes. He wound up happily hitched to a Polish woman. Most of the time, he lives in Melbourne, teaching, writing, and raising two marvellous boys. His fiction and poetry have appeared regularly in Australian and international literary journals and anthologies, including Les Murray’s selection for Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World (2014). This website hosts a selection of his published work.