Peter Long has worked as a stockman, public servant, consultant, researcher and academic. His first novel was Steve Hart: The Last Kelly Standing (Hawkeye 2022). Peter studied in Canada and holds degrees from University of Queensland and University of Toronto. His poetry has been highly commended in the McGregor Literary Competition and a long poem published in Paper Children. He has been long-listed and published in both The Stringybark and Sydney Hammond short story competitions and his collection of short stories long- listed in the 2020 Hawkeye Manuscript Development Prize.