Shaun McGurgan Biography

To me writing is like cooking. Add a spice, taste, look, smell. Change the texture and the layers. The good thing about writing is that you can take words or phrases out of your pot, re-use them or change them and put them back.
I write for relaxation and reflection. I write best when I am in a strange place or on a journey. I like to write when I am in my back yard.
I draw inspiration from many sources. My colleagues at work, local soccer games, people in transit, bars that sort of thing.
I was a teacher at Silkwood School in the Gold Coast Hinterland and a teacher at Green School Bali.
I have been an Australian Rules Footballer, a travelling bush conservationist, a coca-cola sales rep., a council garden worker, a uni. student, a traveller and a drinker of life's spirits.
I can speak Indonesian.
Now family man with mortgage, lovely partner Lianne and two girls Mythra and Jaiah.
I currently live in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia