Snapshot 2012: Simon Petrie

Simon Petrie hails from the South Island of New Zealand, and now lives on the North Island of Australia, where he gets paid to think about molecules. He has won a Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best New Talent (2009). His short story ‘Dark Rendezvous’ appeared in the2010 Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror(Ticonderoga; eds Grzyb & Helene) and was given an Honourable Mention in Gardner Dozois’Best Ofthe same year. He’s also received a coveted Dishonourable Mention in the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton awa...