Born on the South Island of New Zealand and now living on the North Island of Australia, Simon Petrie is a Canberra-based research scientist and writer of speculative fiction (SF, fantasy, and occasionally horror). Since 2007, his stories have appeared in various magazines, webzines and anthologies. He has been shortlisted several times for Ditmar, Sir Julius Vogel, and Aurealis Awards, and has won the Sir Julius Vogel Award three times (in 2010 for Best New Talent and in 2013 and 2018 for Best Novella / Novelette).
Simon is a member of the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild and of SpecFicNZ. He has served on three different judging panels for the Aurealis Awards, in the SF Novel, Anthology & Collection, and Fantasy Short Story categories. He has also edited several issues of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and has co-edited three anthologies.
Another great selection of stories from editor, Simon Petrie, for Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. This magazine prides itself on the diversity of stories it publishes, using -as it does 0 a rotating roster of editors with a variety of tastes.