Christopher Konrad

Chris has lived in Western Australia his whole life with forty of those years in the hills around Perth. Father and mother were Austrian migrants who moved to WA in the 1950’s. He is married with four children aged from 15 - 24 years.

Chris has had a varied life - first as a tradesman Cabinet Maker completing an apprenticeship with his father. He changed career and worked for the last thirteen years in human services as a counsellor/educator/community development. Chris has had several articles published in journals to do with Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drug problems and education.

He has completed a Master Social Science and is currently undertaking PH.D in creative writing and has had poems published in Thirst , WetInk, Word is Out, Page 17 and Staples and in the online publications PixelPapers , WA Poets, Creatrix and Perigee.

Was accepted into a FAW(WA) poetry Master Class and mentorship program in 2007, and has just published in an anthology with 4 other WA poets. The book is titled Amber Contains the Sun and will be launched at the Perth Writers’ Festival early in 2009.