Shannon Burns is a writer, reviewer/critic and sometimes-academic, based in Adelaide, Australia. He has written for Australian Book Review, Sydney Review of Books and Music & Literature, and is a member of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. He won the 2009 Adelaide Review Prize for Short Fiction and the 2015 Salisbury Writers’ Festival Prize for Fiction. He is currently working on a biography of the writer, Gerald Murnane.