About Wesley
Wesley Irwin was born and raised in Chinchilla, only leaving the town for five years to attend university at Toowoomba and three years to live in Miles. At USQ, he attained a degree in fine arts and followed that up with a graduate diploma in education. On graduating, Wesley returned to teach Art at his old high school, Chinchilla SHS. The bulk of his early teaching career was at Miles SHS, mostly teaching Art and English.
Currently, Wesley is enjoying leave for the purpose of providing ‘daddy-daycare’ for his son. It was during this break from teaching that Wesley, often with his boy on his lap, wrote Buster Barrett’s Gallipoli. This is his first novel. He has many ideas for novels…including a sequel to BBG.
Wesley enjoys watching either slowburner or gritty drama genre films. He also loves scraping the seedy underbelly of schlocky reality-TV programs. He has a passion for his family, the Chinchilla PBOY Association, popular ‘colcha’, the changing face of language, election night coverage banter, being a rural, chilled out music, teaching gen-Y (although not currently) and all things Australian and sport…preferably together.
He does not have a passion for forced council amalgamations in Qld, telemarketers, forensic crime drama, but enjoys watching really poor TV get ripped from the airways after only a few episodes.
He lives in Chinchilla with his wife, Gina and their son, Fletcher and three chooks: Daisy, Myrtle and Ethel. Also, a kookaburra named Kevin and a willywagtail named Willy.
About Fletcher
Fletcher Irwin is a seasoned milk drinker and enjoys spending his time watching european arthouse cinema.
He has been known to frequent local nightspots and has a special fondness for supergroup "the Wiggles".