Being able to escape into the realm of the imagination was handy growing up as the youngest in a family of eleven. Chris continues his fantasy and SF writing habit from his home town of Brisbane. He also enjoys martial arts, movies, music and exploring narrow alleyways. Chris has a lovely wife Sandra and three children, Aedan, Declan and Brigit.Chris's work has appeared in various anthologies as well as Aurealis magazine, Orb Speculative Fiction and Redsine magazine (refer to my website for a full list of publications). His SF story Eyes of Erebus (Daikaiju2) and SF short Within Twilight were both short-listed for the Aurealis Awards (2007 & 2002). He has won the One Book, Many Brisbanes competition twice (2005 & 2009). His heroic fantasy series the Jakirian Cycle featuring three books - The Calvanni, Scytheman & Sorcerer - has just been released. www.chrismcmahon.net