Geoff Cochrane is a poet and fiction writer who was born in Wellington, NZ in 1951 and has lived there almost all his life. In 2009 he was awarded the Janet Frame Prize for Poetry and in 2010 the inaugural Nigel Cox Unity Books Award. His most recent book, Astonished Dice collects his two slim volumes of short stories, originally published in limited editions, the early novella 'Quest Clinic', and more recent stories.