Peter Knight lives in Perth, Western Australia, on the fringe of a continental desert and the sparsely populated eastern shore of the Indian Ocean. He worked as a lawyer, mostly at the Australian Securities & Investment Commission for 25 years. Prior to that he worked as a clerk for government legal entities and before that he worked in unskilled jobs and as a trainee psychiatric nurse in now defunct mental asylums in Sydney & New Norfolk, Tasmania. His experiences have influenced how he perceives the range of the human condition.

