Sunil Badami has an Honours Degree in Communications from the University of Technology, Sydney and a Masters with Distinction in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths College, The University of London. He has written for publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, The Australian, The Australian Literary Review, The Cultural Studies Review and Meanjin. His short story Collective Silences is included in the 2007 Best Australian Short Stories. He is completing his first novel.