Will Elliott won the ABC manuscript award with The Pilo Family Circus; in 2006 it won the Golden Aurealis Award and was published in the UK, US, Italy and Germany to great acclaim. He also won The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist Award, a Spanish Nocte award for Best Foreign Novel, a Ditmar award for Best Novel and was shortlisted for the International Horror Guild Award. He published a memoir, Strange Places, with ABC books in 2009 and the Pendulum fantasy trilogy with Voyager in 2010 and 2011. His standalone novel Nightfall was published in 2012. He lives in Brisbane.