Ben Winch

Ben Winch was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1973. Brought up in the Adelaide Hills, Winch fronted the alternative rock band Movement from 1990-92 before starting to write fiction. His first novel Liadhen was shortlisted in the 1994 Angus and Robertson Bookworld award and published by Wakefield Press in 1995. His next novel, My Boyfriend’s Father, was shortlisted in the NSW Premier’s Christina Stead Prize for fiction and the Kathleen Mitchell Award for young writers. In 1996 Winch became the youngest ever recipient of a Fellowship for Literature from the Australia Council for the Arts. In 1997 he moved to Tasmania to work on the psychedelic pulp project Vanishing Points, which was released under a pseudonym in 2014. In 2003 he released the spoken-word/music concept album Brothers of the Head with poet/percussionist Tim Sinclair. Since 2003 he has released music under various monikers, the latest of which is Light Traveller.