Stephen Daisley

Stephen Daisley was born in 1955 in New Zealand. He served in the New Zealand army for five years. He worked other jobs on sheep and cattle stations, on oil and gas construction sites, as a truck driver, and Bartender. He is the author of two books. Traitor won the 2011 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, UTS Award for New Writing and the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Fiction. Coming Rain was published in 2015 and won the New Zealand Book Award for fiction in 2016.