Glenn Stuart Beatty

Glenn Stuart Beatty, poet and novelist, grew up in the Lower Hunter Coalfields of New South Wales. He was educated at the University of Newcastle, University of Central Queensland and Macquarie University. He holds degrees in Arts, Law and Cultural Studies. He has worked in labouring jobs in heavy industry, in the music and theatre industries as a sound and lighting technician and has had held senior positions in the public service in areas of housing, community services and disability services. His first volume of poetry, The Saxophone Injuries appeared in 1991 and since then his work has appeared in a number of anthologies and journals. As a playwright, Glenn has had works commissioned by Newcastle’s Mission Theatre and Freewheels Theatre in Education including a new adaptation of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt. A Long the River Run is his first novel.