Born and raised in Launceston, Tasmania, Rohan Wilson holds degrees and diplomas from the universities of Tasmania, Southern Queensland and Melbourne. He worked in the hospitality industry before moving to Japan in 2003 where he taught English for several years. For his masters thesis, Wilson focused on the conflicts between white settlers and Indigenous Australians in Tasmania. This in turn led to his writing of the Vogel award-winning novel The Roving Party In 2014, He published his second novel, To Name Those Lost, which went on to win the Victorian Premier’s Award for fiction, the Adelaide Festival Award, and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award.