About the Author

Robert Gollagher was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1967. At the age of 21 he graduated with honours from Murdoch University and began his first career as a veterinary surgeon. After spending two years in small animal practice in Melbourne, in 1991 he moved to Saskatoon, Canada and entered a PhD programme in immunology, studying immunotherapy of bone cancer. During this time he travelled to Europe and South America. In 1993 he discontined his studies in favour of entering private industry, returned to Perth, and later began a successful technical sales career as a Hospital Specialist Representative for a major pharmaceutical company.

However in 1995, at the age of 27, he decided if he were ever going to pursue his love of writing now was the time. Accordingly he made the difficult decision to quit his job, return to working as a veterinary surgeon part-time and begin work on his first novel, The Colour of Sunday Afternoons. Over the next five years he completed the novel and two more: Green Dream, which drew on his experiences as a vet and his study of clinical depression; and The Street Angel, which drew on his experiences travelling in Brazil in the early nineties.

Having achieved his goal of writing three novels, Robert returned to pursuing a conventional career. His lifelong interest in software technology led to becoming a Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform in August 2000. In 2001 he moved to Sydney and worked as a Java Development Support Engineer for two years, supporting some of the world's busiest e-commerce websites. In 2003 he settled in Brisbane. Here he worked as a Software Engineer and later became a Java Architect, leading development teams. In 2009, ten years after completing his third novel, he began writing again.

He is currently working on his fourth novel.

Photo: The author at Mylestom, New South Wales, in April 2003