Lew Deegan was born in the tiny West Australian goldfields town of Southern Cross. He discovered his penchant for writing while studying literature and journalism at Curtin Univers...view moreLew Deegan was born in the tiny West Australian goldfields town of Southern Cross. He discovered his penchant for writing while studying literature and journalism at Curtin University. Today he lives between Cooya Beach in Queensland and Balmoral Beach in Sydney, and like many Australian novelists and artists, is inspired by the Antipodean landscape, its monotony and grandeur and vast emptiness.view less