About the Author
Dion Perry is an Australian who was born in Townsville, Queensland. He spent the first eight years of his life living in a caravan and travelling around the eastern side of Australia before moving to Tasmania where he lived on the Furenuau Group Island, Clarke Island for six years. After high school, he completed a three-year traineeship in pulp and papermaking at Australian Newsprint Mill at Boyer, near New Norfolk. Having moved to George Town in northern Tasmania he worked at Comalco in Bell Bay where he worked at a potline operator and operated heavy machinery including overhead cranes for seven and a half years.
Having left he attended university in Hobart, where he did a BA with majors in sociology and Aboriginal studies. He writes mainly speculative fiction in the genres of science fiction and fantasy, but he also writes autobiographies.
In May of 2021, he was diagnosed with viral myocarditis, and in September of 2023, he underwent a heart transplant. While the transplant was successful, the antirejection drugs destroyed his kidneys, and he now undergoes haemodialysis three times a week. He lives in Crookwell in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales with his wife, dog, and cat.
About the Author
Dion Perry is an Australian who was born in Townsville, Queensland. He spent the first eight years of his life living in a caravan and travelling around the eastern side of Australia before moving to Tasmania where he lived on the Furenuau Group Island, Clarke Island for six years. After high school, he completed a three-year traineeship in pulp and papermaking at Australian Newsprint Mill at Boyer, near New Norfolk. Having moved to George Town in northern Tasmania he worked at Comalco in Bell Bay where he worked at a potline operator and operated heavy machinery including overhead cranes for seven and a half years.
Having left he attended university in Hobart, where he did a BA with majors in sociology and Aboriginal studies. He writes mainly speculative fiction in the genres of science fiction and fantasy, but he also writes autobiographies.
In May of 2021, he was diagnosed with viral myocarditis, and in September of 2023, he underwent a heart transplant. While the transplant was successful, the antirejection drugs destroyed his kidneys, and he now undergoes haemodialysis three times a week. He lives in Crookwell in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales with his wife, dog, and cat.