Rhett Davis is the author of Arborescence, a novel about what trees might do if we weren’t careful. It was shortlisted for multiple awards, including the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. His first novel, Hovering, was about a city that wasn’t sure that it should be there. It won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and was shortlisted for the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize and the Aurealis Award for Science Fiction. When not writing, which is most of the time, Rhett also works as a business analyst and a creative writing tutor. He lives and writes mostly on Wadawurrung country in Geelong.
