Geoffrey Gates was born in Sydney, where he lives with his family. He is the author of IP Picks 2005 Best Fiction winner A Ticket for Perpetual Locomotion, as well as short stories published in such Australian literary journals as Southerly, LINQ, UQ Vanguard and Verandah. Geoffrey has worked as a teacher in Australia, England and Germany. He has spent many months in the Provence and Drome regions of France, where he drew inspiration as the setting for The Copyart Murders, his second novel.
