Dougie Macfarlane

The author, Dougie Macfarlane, was born in rural Western Australia in 1954 and grew up in the bush. He attended the University of Western Australia from 1972 to 1976. He graduated BSc math in 1975 and DipEd in 1976. He has been a teacher in primary and secondary schools in two countries, a bartender, a private math tutor, a wine sales manager and a bagpipe maker. For thirty years, he lived in Scotland, but now he lives as a writer in the Netherlands.