Jack Heath

Jack Heath is the award-nominated author of two books: The Lab and Remote Control. His third book, Money Run, will be released in 2008.

He started writing The Lab when he was 13 years old and had a publishing contract at 18. He's 21 now, but all the other writers still make fun of him.

When he's not writing, Jack is performing street magic, composing film music, teaching or lecturing at schools and festivals, or playing a variety of instruments including the piano and the bass guitar. He stoically ignores his lack of qualifications or training in any of these areas.

Jack was born in Sydney in 1986, but has resided in Canberra since age 9. He didn't intend to end up there, but he's afraid of big cities, small towns, places where no-one speaks English, and places where he doesn't know anyone. Every passing day makes it harder to leave.