Garth Nix was born in 1963 and grew up in Camberra, Australia. After taking his degree in professional writing from the University of Canberra, he slowly sank into the morass of the publishing industry, steadily devolving from sales rep through publicist, until in 1991 he became a senior editor with a major multinational publisher. He traveled through Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia and returned to Australia in 1994, where he is currently a part-time marketing communications consultant and author, because all the other writers took the deep-sea-diver and short-order-cook jobs. He now lives in Sydney, a five-minute walk from Bondi Beach.
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