Margo Lanagan was born in 1960 and grew up in the Hunter Valley (New South Wales, Australia) and Melbourne. She travelled a bit, studied history at university in Perth and Sydney and has worked as a kitchen-hand and encyclopedia seller, as well as spending ten years as a freelance book editor. She is now a technical writer as well as a creative one. She lives in Sydney with her partner and their two sons.

Read The Eternal Night Interview with Margo Lanagan (April 2004) here