Geoffrey Maloney is as mad as a hatter, mostly. He lives in Brisbane and is one of the best known short story writers in Australia in the fantastic genres today. As well as Australia his work is frequently published in the UK and the US, and regularly appears in Australian year’s best collections and on honourable mention lists in the US. He has been nominated six times for an Aurealis Award in Australia and won it in 2001 for his story The World According to Kipling.

In 2004 Geoffrey met Zoran Zivkovic at the Brisbane Writer’s Festival. They produced two anthologies of Australian writing together: The Devil in Brisbane and Fantastical Journeys to Brisbane.

Six Silly Stories is also about Brisbane. It is absurd and combines everyday life with the fantastic. Brisbane is one of those cities that is impossible not to write about.

A non-absurd collection of Geoffrey’s stories, Tales from the Crypto-System, is available from Prime Books in the US.