Angelo Loukakis has been a writer, teacher, scriptwriter, editor and publisher. He is the author of the fiction titles Vernacular Dreams (UQP, 1986), Messenger (Penguin, 1992), The Memory of Tides (HarperCollins, 2006) and Houdini’s Flight (HarperCollins, 2010). He has also written a number of non-fiction works, including a book for children, The Greeks (Hodder and Stoughton, 1981), and a book of the SBS television series, Who Do You Think You Are? (Pan Macmillan, 2008). His collection of short stories, For the Patriarch (UQP, 1981), was winner of a New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award.