Dan Churach

Dan Churach was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, an hour’s drive northwest of Philadelphia. After high school, he studied at St. Procopius College (now Benedictine University) in Illinois and universities in Rhode Island and Hawaii before earning his PhD at Curtin University in Western Australia.

It certainly wasn’t all study… While working as a counsellor in Philadelphia half a century ago, Dan met a young nurse, and the two fell in love. He and Karn married less than a year later. Starting out in Philly, they went on to live and work in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and the Hawaiian Islands before emigrating to Australia. After two years in tropical Broome, they settled in Perth, Western Australia, where they now reside with their pups, Bomber, Rocky and Bisket.

After a lifelong career as a university lecturer and a high school science teacher, Churach’s enthusiasm for the sciences and education strongly shaped his love for creative writing. That passion manifests itself in stories firmly based on a foundation of scientific reality. He crafts his “technothrillers” to lead the reader on a voyage of critical thinking, constantly challenging them to solve the ‘who-done-it’ aspect of the story from the clues given.

His recent works reflect the social, political and scientific issues that shape our world. Whether applications of artificial intelligence in medicine, the impact of bioengineering on society or the accelerating deterioration of Earth’s climate. His stories are quite topical, as believable as the latest newsfeed, and always keep the reader guessing until the very last page.

TURTLES is Dan's tenth published book and follows CLOUDS and the "Ancestor Trilogy (EIGHT-SOALSTALGIA-KAIROS). Earlier works include RAINBOW, DREAMS, FEVER, BACK TO PARADISE and PROOF.