Alan Carter was born in Sunderland, UK. He immigrated to Australia in 1991 and divides his time between the beach at Fremantle and life on a farm in New Zealand's South Island. He sometimes works as a television documentary director and in his spare time follows the black line up and down the local swimming pool. He is the author of four novels- in the Cato Kwong series, Prime Cut (winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction in 2010), Getting Warmer and Bad Seed , and a standalone, Marlborough Man , set in New Zealand.