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Ben Peek is the controversial and critically acclaimed Sydney based author of Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth, Black Sheep, Above/Below and the upcoming collection, Dead Americans. He holds a doctorate in literature and splits his time between teaching and writing.

His first novel, Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth, had Rave Magazine say, “Ben Peek [has] joined the ranks of writers to realise dressing up their memoirs as a novel is less interesting that writing an actual autobiography with Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth....” Originally published by Wheatland Press, the series of alphabetical entries lists author hoaxes whilst also is an actual autobiography. His second novel, Black Sheep, was reviewed by Paul DiFillipo who said Ben Peek “crafts a quietly horri...more Ben Peek is the controversial and critically acclaimed Sydney based author of Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth, Black Sheep, Above/Below and the upcoming collection, Dead Americans. He holds a doctorate in literature and splits his time between teaching and writing.

His first novel, Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth, had Rave Magazine say, “Ben Peek [has] joined the ranks of writers to realise dressing up their memoirs as a novel is less interesting that writing an actual autobiography with Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth....” Originally published by Wheatland Press, the series of alphabetical entries lists author hoaxes whilst also is an actual autobiography. His second novel, Black Sheep, was reviewed by Paul DiFillipo who said Ben Peek “crafts a quietly horrifying world displaced from ours by a century of time and an implosion of globalist attitudes.”

Peek is the creator of the Urban Sprawl Project, a psychogeography pamphlet for which he wrote and took photographs. It was given out free in the suburbs of Sydney. With artist Anna Brown, he created the autobiographical comic, Nowhere Near Savannah, which was run in weekly instalments on his blog. In addition to this, he also conducted the first Australian Science Fiction Author and Artist Snapshot, interviewing over forty writers, artists and editors in the space of two weeks. He has since written reviews and articles for Strange Horizons, Overland, and various street presses.

Peek's first piece of short fiction was published in 1996. He has since had published over thirty stories, novelettes and novellas. These have been published in anthologies such as Forever Shores, edited by Peter McNamara and Margaret Winch; Leviathan Four: Cities, edited by Forrest Aquirre; Paper Cities, edited by Ekaterina Sedia; and the Agog! series, edited by Cat Sparks. His stories have also appeared in a range of diverse magazines, including Fantasy Magazine, Overland, Phantom and Aurealis. Peek’s work has also being reprinted in various editions of Year's Best volumes and nominated for a number of awards.(less)

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The Fictional Life of Cabramatta

Cabramatta, one of Sydney's suburbs more favoured by local media. You can, according to them, find a lot there, from gangs, drugs, illegal immigrants, prostitution, and so on and so forth. It's a border town, an edge of the larger city uncontrolled.

It probably doesn't surprise you to learn that it's nothing like that.

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	Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Black Sheep 3.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy by Ekaterina Sedia (Editor / Contributor), Forrest Aguirre (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Hal Duncan (Contributor) 3.39 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Field Guide to Surreal Botany by Janet Chui (Editor, Illustrator), Jason Erik Lundberg (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Shveta Thakrar (Goodreads Author) 4.46 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Sprawl by Alisa Krasnostein (Goodreads Author) (editor), Liz Argall (Goodreads Author), Pete Kempshall 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Leviathan 4: Cities by Forrest Aguirre (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ben Peek (Goodreads Author), Michael Cisco 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Above & Below by Stephanie Campisi, Ben Peek (Goodreads Author), Alisa Krasnostein (Goodreads Author) (editor) 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Last Drink Bird Head by Ann VanderMeer (Editor), Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Daniel Abraham (Contributor) 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Elsewhere: An Anthology of Incredible Places by Michael Barry (Editor), Maxine McArthur (Contributor), Nicole R. Murphy (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 63 (Clarkesworld Magazine #63) by Neil Clarke (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jeremy L. C. Jones, Ben Peek (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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