B. Michael Radburn is an award-winning writer of short stories, novels and screen plays. He is also the founder of Dark Press Publications and the former editor of the Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine. He is the author of Blackwater Moon, The Reach, The Falls, and The Crossing, which is being made into a film by Chris Haywood. He lives in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales with his family. Barren Grounds is his fifth novel.