Alan Carter is a British writer living in Australia where he also works as a television documentary director. He is the author of Prime Cut and a recipient of the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. Alan Carter was born in Sunderland, UK, in 1959. He holds a degree in Communications Studies from Sunderland Polytechnic and immigrated to Australia in 1991. Alan lives in Fremantle with his wife Kath and son Liam. He works as a television documentary director. In his spare time he follows a black line up and down the Fremantle pool. Prime Cut is Alan Carter' s first novel.

He wrote it while he was living in Hopetoun as a kept man.