A novelist, futurist, and critical theorist, Damien Broderick is an honorary senior research Fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia and holds a multi-disciplinary PhD from Deakin University in the comparative semiotics of science and literature.
Broderick has been awarded Literature Board Writing Fellowships by the Australian Council in 1980, 1984, 1990, 1995, and 2003; and writing grants from Deakin University in 1986 and Arts Victoria in 1998. He was awarded the 1980 Ditmar for best Australian SF Novel; in1985 a Special Ditmar Award; the 1989 and 1998 Ditmar Awards, the 1998 Aurealis Award, the 2002 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of 2002, and the 2002 Ditmar for best Australian Collected Work.
In 2005, he received the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.
He lives in Melbourne, Australia, and San Antonio, Texas, USA.
