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Maxine McArthur

Maxine McArthur was born in Brisbane in 1962. Her father was an engineer and the family moved around a lot when she was a child. Perhaps in reaction to this, after leaving school she spent sixteen years in Japan studying, working, and making a family. She moved back to Australia in 1996 and settled in Canberra. She has always loved reading, mainly genre fiction. She enjoyed writing at school, but only resumed writing seriously after returning to Australia. Her first completed novel, Time Future, won the 1999 George Turner Award and was published in September of that year. A short story set on the space station from Time Future was shortlisted for the Melbourne crime fiction group, Sisters in Crime's 'Scarlet Stiletto' competition 1999. At present Maxine is working on a sequel to Time Future and is also planning a near-future thriller set in Japan. She has two children, a dog, two part-time jobs, and does far less reading than she'd like to.

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