Barry Divola is a journalist and author from Sydney. He writes regularly for Rolling Stone, the Sydney Morning Herald, Who, Smith Journal and Men's Style. He has published books including Fanclub, Searching For Kingly Critter, The Secret Life Of Backpackers, M Is For Metal and Nineteen Seventysomething. He has won the Banjo Paterson Short Story Award three times, plus the Jennifer Burbidge Short Story Award and the Margaret River Short Story Competition.