About Chris Gill

Author

Chris Gill is an Australian poet, novelist and co-founder of the independent publisher PRNTD. He is the author of four books: the poetry collections Verses and Dry Bite, and the novels The Nowhere and Boy Fallen. His novel The Nowhere was a Lambda Literary Awards finalist.

His writing explores grief, love, identity, memory, and the quiet beauty of ordinary life, often through the lens of queer experience, family, and the search for belonging.

Background

Chris was born in Eastbourne, England, to a British mother and a New Zealand father before moving to Auckland at the age of two. It was there that his love of reading and writing first took hold, filling notebooks with stories that his mother still keeps today.

After returning to England, Chris spent his teenage years in Sussex, experiences that would later inform many of the emotional landscapes of his fiction, including coming of age, small-town isolation, and the search for identity. He went on to study journalism at university in Hampshire before beginning a career in copywriting in London.

In 2011, Chris co-founded the independent publisher PRNTD and released his debut poetry collection, Verses. After relocating to Australia in 2014, he published The Nowhere in 2019, which became a Lambda Literary Awards finalist, followed by the novel Boy Fallen. His second poetry collection, Dry Bite, marks a return to poetry through a deeply personal exploration of grief, chronic pain, unconditional love and healing.

Chris lives in Sydney with his husband, Michael.