Robert L. Shelley trained first as an architect and, now working primarily as a writer, has spent most of his life making things, be it shaping clay as a potter, taking photographs, surviving restaurant kitchens, directing hotel ambience, or building stories with a designer's sense of structure and an artist's eye for detail. He is involved with WriteSpace Creative, a community built by writers for writers, has studied creative non-fiction at Cambridge and is currently completing a master's in creative fiction at Anglia Ruskin University, which all sounds terribly respectable until you remember he still prefers a good sentence to a sensible one. His work often explores memory, place, longing, and the strange emotional architecture of lives half-lived or half-imagined, with humour never too far behind. Registered with the NSW Board of Architects, he is also a member of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Society of Authors, Orwell Society, Writing NSW, and the Design Institute of Australia.