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Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
About Ben Peek
- Ben Peek (born 12 October 1976 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian author.
- His middle name is Michael.Peek's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Fantasy Magazine and Aurealis.
- His fiction has been reprinted in various Year's Best volumes.
- In 2000, he created a zine called The Urban Sprawl Project, a black and white pamphlet of photography and prose, and this remains the name of his online journal.
- In 2006 his autobiography, Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth, was published by Wheatland Press with artwork from Andrew Macrae and Anna Brown.
- In 2007, Black Sheep, a dystopian novel, was published by Prime Books.
- In 2007, Peek also began collaborating with artist Anna Brown on Nowhere Near Savannah, an online comic that in part follows on from their original collaboration on Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth.
- Peek has claimed that every incident described in Nowhere near Savannah is true.Peek holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Western Sydney, and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of New South Wales, during which he wrote the novel A Year in the City.
- His reviews have appeared on several websites including, PopImage, Sequential Tart, and Strange Horizons.
- In 2005 he interviewed over forty Australian speculative fiction writers, editors and publishers as part of The 2005 Snapshot: Australian Speculative Fiction. Peek's writing is best described as speculative fiction.
- However, he often takes fundamental elements of the genre and combines them into other styles.
- Recurring themes in Peek's work include the representation of race and multiculturalism.
- Peek has also written a number of works that play with story form, including Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth and Johnny Cash.
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