Samuel Kaye was born in Adelaide and grew up in Melbourne, London and Sydney. He now lives in Newtown, an inner western suburb of Australia’s largest city. Kaye’s first novella, The Circus, was published in 2014 by Inken Publisch. His short stories Jindabyne Holiday and The Turkish-German Girl have appeared in Sneaky Magazine. He has an Arts degree in English literature and languages from the University of Sydney, and a Communications degree in creative writing and philosophy from the University of Technology.